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"I think we have the grandest storeley that visit our

continent," resuhtfully "I suppose because the house

stands so high The wind never sounds to hts"

Yielding to the weird attraction of the scene invoked by her fancy,

she arose and walked to theat the eastern extreht peer into the wild

darkness The cris and the lamp rays

threw a strongly defined shadow of her figure upon the piazza floor,

distinct as that projected by a solarrays into the misty fall of the snow,

past the spot frolione, showing the black outline of

the gate where he had looked back to lift his hat to her

What was there in the wintry night and thick tempest to recall the

war, the s roses overhead, the balmy humidity of every breath she

drew? What in her present co

clasp that had thrilled her heart into palpitation? the earnest

depth of the eyes that held hers during the one sharp, yet sweet

ed the fealty of her lover's soul,

and deht have been