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Lastly, he began also to confide that he loved no woman on earth more ardently than the very Daphne whom, when only a pretty little child, she had carried in her arms, yet that he could not seek the wealthy heiress because uish of renunciation seized hiain to his ination refused its service, and the vision would not appear

Then he groped his way back to the bed, and, as he let his head sink upon the pillows, he fancied that he would soon be again enwrapped in the sweet slu shunned his couch

It was years since he had felt so full of peace and hope, and he told hirateful joy, that every childlike emotion had not yet died within hiles of the last years had not yet steeled every gentle emotion