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"Will your Excellency per man who had pressed his horse to the leader's side "It's odds,

though, that when you return this way you'll find me turned Papist I'll

swear your Excellency never saw in Flanders carved or painted saint so

worthy of your prayers as yonder breathing one!"

The girl Molly had followed her parents, and now stood upon a little

grassy knoll, surveying ide brown eyes the gay troop before her A

light as blowing, and it wrapped her dress of tender, faded blue

around her young liilded by the

sunshine into the likeness of an aureole Her face was serious and

wondering, but fair as a woodland flower She had placed her hand upon the

head of the child ith her, clinging to her dress The green knoll

formed a pedestal; behind was the sky, as blue as that of Italy; the two

figures htly company, which had taken for its motto "Sic juvat

transcendere montes," looked and worshiped There was a entle if 't were not tio much farther and fare much

worse, in respect of a cool, sweet spot in which to rest during the heat

of the afternoon; and a third boldly proposed that they go no farther at

all that day Their leader settled the question by announcing that, Mr

Mason's suggestion finding favor in his sight, they would forthwith

dismount, dine, drink red wine and white, and wear out the heat of the day