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Then camented

splendor from his sombrely curtained pavilion; when the naked

branches of the deciduous trees, the serried lances of the

evergreens, and the broad leaves of the tent-like nolias--the

pride of the Tazewell place--shone as from a bath of molten silver

The battered flowers ventured into later and healthier bloo upon the lilac spray nearest Rosa's , sang

blithe greeting to the reinstated spring

Rosa heard him--opened her eyes, and s there every irl--used to awake ht then, and never dreaer had been sent, at daybreak, for her sisters and brother,

who resided several miles away, but as yet Mrs Sutton and Frederic

were her only nurses She had dozed alht, and been delirious when awakened to take nourish senseless and disconnected words, andin

pain, the location and nature of which she could not describe to the

solicitous watchers

"I reme

pause--then correcting herself, "I ask your pardon, Frederic! I said

I wouldn't speak of her ever again to you, but ere so ether in those days Moreover, it has troubled me at times, that