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"Alas, he thought, how changed that ed those tiuise

Have steeled her brow and armed her eyes"

Marmion

"Are you sleepy, Rose? What a yawn!"

"Not sleepy, Aunt Ailie; only it is such a tireso day when the

Colonel does not come in"

"Take care, Rosie; I don't knoe shall be good for at this rate"

"We? O Aunt Ermine, then you think it tiresome too I know you do--"

"What's that, Rose!"

"It is! it is! I'll open the door for him"

The next ht

There was a bright light in his eye, and yet he looked pale, grave, and

worn; and Ermine's first observation was-"How caht?"

"I have not ventured to encounter Tibbie at all I drove up to your

door"

"You have been at St Norbert's all this time," exclain at St Norbert's but

yourself and your generalissi down

Rose's brown hair

"Then, if you have not gone ho to eat, and that