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"Well,--yes But I'o away now?"

"Do you suppose a soldier has got nothing to do? You never calculate, I think, that Ennis is about three-and-twenty o"

"How can I be nice when you are going? I always think when I see you go that you will never coain I don't knohy you should come back to such a place as this?"

"Because, as it happens, the place holds what I love best in all the world" Then he lifted her from her chair, and put his arm round her waist "Do you not know that I love you better than all that the world holds?"

"How can I know it?"

"Because I swear it to you"

"I think that you like o and never to come back I should die Do you remember Mariana? 'My life is dreary He cometh not,' she said She said, 'I am aweary, aweary; I would that I were dead!' Do you re to you?"

"She has been bidding me to do you no harm It was not necessary I would sooner pluck out my eye than hurt you My uncle is an old man,--a very old man She cannot understand that it is better that we should wait, than that I should have to think hereafter that I had killed hiirl"

"He cannot e my heart, Kate If you can not trust me for that, then you do not love me as I love you"

"Oh, Fred, you know I love you I do trust you Of course I can wait, if I only know that you will co over her, and her cheek was pressed close to his Though she was talking of Mariana, and pretending to fear future misery, all this was Elysium to her,--the very joy of Paradise She could sit and think of hiht, and never find the day an hour too long She could remember the words in which heof his arodlike And then when he would kiss her, though she would rebuke hih all heaven were in the embrace