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'Whoso for hours or lengthy days Shall catch her aspect's changeful rays, Then turn away, can none recall Beyond a galaxy of all In hazy portraiture; Lit by the light of azure eyes Like summer days by summer skies: Her sweet transitions seem to be A kind of pictured melody, And not a set contour

'AE M' To shake, pull, and ransack the box till he had almost destroyed it was now his natural action But it contained absolutely nothingdown the box, the bit of paper, and the withered twig that had lain with it

Yet valueless as the new acquisition was, on second thoughts he considered that it would be worth while to ood the state the box contained except the sewing-thread Thereupon he enclosed the verse andin another envelope, with a remark that he had overlooked them in his first search, and put it on the table for the next day's post

In his hurry and concentration upon theand obtaining a light, had not waited to pull down the blind or close the shutters Consequently all that he had done had been visible froe not one person athe quiet pave, the discovery of the omission did not much concern his mind

But the real state of the case was that a tall ainst the opposite wall and watched the whole of his proceeding When Edward ca Cross post-office, the man followed hier did not further trouble hiain

Manston no that there had been photographs of soh he had not been near enough to see theuessed whose they were The least reflection told him to whom they had been sent

He paused aat the two or three o in front of hih Holywell Street, and on to Old Boswell Court Kicking aside the shoeblacks who began to importune him as he passed under the colonnade, he turned up the narrow passage to the publishing-office of the Post-Office Directory He begged to be allowed to see the Directory of the south-west counties of England for a moment