that is wanted n hard times he suggested it very doubtfully as if he were half to admit it even now she made him no answer lying him on her bed still half dressed much as he had seen her lying on the floor of his room last night and his hand rested on her hair again i have been absent om here my dear a good deal of late and though your sister s training has been pursued according to� the system he appeared to come to that word with great reluctance always necessarily been modified by daily associations begun in her case at an early age i ask you � and humbly my daughter � for the better do you think father she without stirring if any harmony has been awakened in her young breast that was mute in mine until it n turned to discord let her thank heaven for it and go upon her happier way taking it as her greatest blessing that she has my way my child my child he said in a forlorn manner i am an man to see you thus what it to me that you do not reproach me if i so bitterly reproach myself he bent his head and spoke low to her i have a that some change may have been slowly working about me in this house by mere love and gratitude that what the head had and could not do the heart may have been doing silently can it be so she made him no reply i am not too proud to believe it how could i be and you before me can it be so is it so my dear he looked upon her once more lying cast away there and without another word went out of the room he had not been long gone when she heard a tread near the door and knew that some one stood beside her she did not raise her head a dull anger that she should be seen in her distress and that the involuntary look she had so resented should come to this within her hke an fire all closely imprisoned forces and destroy the air that would be to the earth the water that would it the heat that would it tear it when up so in her bosom even now the strongest she possessed long turned upon themselves became a heap of that rose � a friend hard it was well that touch came upon her neck and that she understood herself to be supposed to have fallen asleep the sympathetic hand did not claim her resentment let it lie there let it lie so it lay there warming into life a crowd of thoughts and she lay still as she softened with the quiet and the consciousness of being so watched some tears made their way into her eyes the face touched hers and she knew that there were tears upon it too and she the cause of them as feigned to rouse herself and sat up retired so that she stood placidly near the bedside i hope i have not disturbed you i have come to ask if you will let me stay with you why should you stay with me my sister will miss you you are every thing to her am i returned shaking her head i would be something to you if i might what said almost sternly whatever you want most if i could be that at all events i would like to try to be as near it as i can and however far off that may be i will never tire of trying will you let me my father sent you to ask me c no indeed he told me that i might come in now but he sent me away from the room this or at least � she hesitated and stopped at least what said with h r searching eyes upon her i thought it best myself that i should be sent away for i felt very uncertain whether you would like to find me here have i always hated you so much i hope not for i have always loved you and have always wished that you should know it but you changed to me a little shortly before you left home not that i wondered at it you knew so much and i knew so little and it was so natural in many ways going as you were among other that i had nothing to complain of and was not at all hurt her color rose as she said it modestly and hurriedly understood the loving and her heart smote her may i try said to raise her hand to the neck that was drooping toward her sm hard times taking the hand that would have her in another moment held it in one � i hers and ed first do you know what i i am so proud and so i hardened so confused and troubled so and unjust to every one and to myself that every thing is stormy dark and wicked to i me does not that you no i am so unhappy and all that should have made me otherwise is so laid waste that if i had been of sense to this and instead of being as learned as you think me had to begin to acquire the simplest truths i could not want a guide to honor all the good of which i am quite devoid more than i do does not that you no i in the innocence of her brave and the up of her old spirit the once deserted girl shone like a light upon the darkness of the other raised the hand that it might clasp her and its fellow there she fell upon h knees and clinging to thk s child looked up at her almost with forgive me pity me help 