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Love is strong as Death Sorrow not as others that have no Hope'

In smaller letters down below, 'This epitaph is at her own special request'

"Sir," continued Aurelia, "it was very curious I should not have observed those words if it had not been that a large beautiful butterfly, with rainbow eyes on its wings, sat sunning itself on the white e! May I ask you to repeat it again?"

"The texts? 'Love is strong as death Sorrow not as others that have no hope'"

"Did you call them Scripture texts?"

"Yes, sir; I know the last is in one of the Epistles, and I will look for the other"

"It e toher destroyer"

"Nay, they have coently "You really never knew of them before?"

"No, I durst not ask, nor did any one dare to speak to me My brother, who alone would have done so, died, I scarcely knohen; but ere the very consciousness of ain repeat the words, gentle er of mercy"

She obeyed, but this time he mournfully murmured, "Hope! What hope for their destroyer?"

"They are God's words, as well as hers," the girl answered, with diffident earnestness, but in reply she only heard tightened breaths, which made her say, "You cannot bear ht"

Jumbo came at the mention of his nas, and so wholly devoted to his reater shock to find that he had been present than if he had been a faithful dog

A few days later he told Aurelia that Mas'r was not well enough to see her He had set forth as soon as the moon had set, and walked with his trusty servant to Sedhurst, where he had traced with his finger the whole inscription, lingering so long that the sun was above the horizon before he could get ho on the bed where he had thrown hi neither spoken nor eaten since Jurumble out that Mas'r was better left to hi was recalled, there was a ring of refreshment in the voice It was still h it was only of Achilles and Patroclus that they talked, she was convinced that the pressure of the heavy burthen of grief and rehtened