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her fresh, youthful lips--the smile peculiar to innocence and happiness

She dreaes passed before her mental eyes;

she dreamed of a distant land in which she had once been, of a distant

house in which she had once dwelt It was even more beautiful and

splendid than this which she now occupied, but it had lacked this blue

sky and fragrant atmosphere; it lacked these trees and flowers, these

ale, and upon a few su, dull winter -sheet

of snoith their benu masses of ice, and the fantastic flowers

painted on the s by the frost And yet, and yet, there had been a

sun which shone into her heart warht of which spread a purple glow upon her cheeks This sun had

shone upon her frolances of a lady whoenius, as a divinity, as the bright star of her existence!

Whenever that lady had come to her in the solitary house in which she

then dwelt, then had all appeared to her as in a transfiguration; then

had even her peevish old servant learned to smile and become humble and

friendly; then all was joy and happiness, and whoever saw that beautiful

and brilliant lady, had thought himself blessed, and had fallen down to

adore her