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"Why, you are looking at John-apple-trees! You know bitter-sweets--you

used to well enough!"

"I a too dark to

distinguish"

Winterborne did not continue It seee and

interest which had formerly moved Grace's mind had quite died away from

her He wondered whether the special attributes of his is

However that ht be, the fact at present wasJohn-apples and far a far

remoter scene--a scene no less innocent and si--a broad lawn in the fashionable suburb of a fast city, the

evergreen leaves shining in the evening sun, ae at gahter and chat, in all the

pride of life, the notes of piano and harp tre Moreover, they were girls--and this was a

fact which Grace Melbury's delicate feht

of--whose parents Giles would have addressed with a deferential Sir or

Madam Beside this visioned scene the homely farmsteads did not quite

hold their own from her present twenty-year point of survey For all

his woodland sequestration, Giles knew the primitive simplicity of the

subject he had started, and now sounded a deeper note