arthur has reason to be yery god bless his wife and him wept as she tried to thank him he reassured her took her hand as it lay with the trembling roses in it on his arm took the roses from it and put it to his lips at that time it seemed to him he first finally resigned the dying hope that had in nobody s heart so much to its pain and trouble and from that time he became in his own eyes as to any similar hope or prospect a yery much older man who had done with that part of life he pat the roses in his breast and they walked on for a little while slowly and silently under the trees then ho asked her in a of kindness was there anything else that the would say to him as her friend and her father s friend many years older than herself was there any trust she would repose in him any � she would ask of him any little aid to her happiness that she him the lasting gratification of it was in his power to re f she was going to answer when she was so touched by some hidden sorrow or sympathy � what could it have been � that she said bursting into tears again mr good generous mr pray tell me you do not blame me i blame you said my dearest girl i blame you no after clasping both her hands upon his arm and looking up into his face with some words to the effect that she thanked him from her heart as indeed she did if it be the source of earnestness she gradually composed herself with now and then a word of encouragement from him as they walked on slowly and almost silently under the darkening trees and now at length said smiling will you ask me nothing oh i haye yery much to ask of you well i hoped so i am not disappointed you know how i am at home and bow i love home you can hardly think it perhaps dear mr a i � si k i mo going from it of my own free will choice but do go iy low it i am sure of that can you � i i t no it is d to mr that it to much and being much beloved in it i con bear to it it � so of it so dear mid it is in the natural and change of time am homes are left go yes i know but all homes arc not left with such a in them na there will be in mine when nm not that is any of better more and more much but that th� y hare na fe nut that i i i � i and � he sobbed the girls than i bo much of me i pet s heart w pictured would i a change papa will feel ut and t know that at first i cannot be to him anything what i have u and it is then mr then more than at any th and entreat to remember him and to keep when you can a little while and to t� u t know i waa of him when i left him than i ever was in all my for there is nobody � lie me so himself when he talked i� this very day � there is he so well oa you or an i much a clue to what had passed between the father and daughter like a y stone into the well of s heart and to eyes he cheerily but not quite no � � ite tried to say that it be done that he gave her � promise if i do not speak of said pot more moved by � � r pretty in her innocent grief than could trust himself now to consider � for which he counted the trees and the fading light as they slowly in � mamma will me in this and feel my loss in a different way and will look forward in a r but you know what a dear mother ia remember her too will you not let trust him said lot trust him to da she wished and dear sir papa and whom i need not name do not fully appreciate and another yet as they will by by and it will ba duty and the pride and of my new life to draw a better knowledge of one another to be a another and to be proud of one another and to one loving me so dearly as you are a kind tn when i am first from home am going a long away try tu to him u little mon um ji influence to keep him � mind free real form will you do this for me ua an a poor pet self mistaken when were such changes ever made in men s natural relations to one another when such of differences ever effected it been tried many times by other daughters it has never succeeded has ever come of it but failure so thought so he did not say it was too late he bound himself all she asked and she knew full well that he would do it they were now at the last tree in the avenue she stopped and her arm speaking to him with her eyes lifted up to his � and with the hand that had lately rested on his sleeve touching one of the roses in his breast as an additional appeal to said dear mr in my happiness � for i am happy though you have seen me cr ring � i cannot bear to leave any cloud between if you have to forgive me not that i have done but any trouble i may have caused 