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with hers. and when he left her to her
mothers care she fell into deep sleep.
She dreamed rba, she was again child
gathering cowsllps in well.known green
meadow neor the farm house. and that
suddenly she saw standing close to the high
bank, two figures. one in white cloak
with white hood over its bead, and the !
other similarly dressed in crimson. They |
seemed taller than men, and with stately |
looks and gestures each invited her to ap.
pronch and to- drink of bis fountain, which |
gushed ont of,hc bank. The fountain of
the white figure she saw was milk, and she
thought that she had often drank OF that /;
but the other stream was red wine, which
she had never tasted, and she turned to 1t,
and drank OF 1t from the bowl which the
4 crimson figure held out to her. Then the
white figure sank down, and in sinking.
uncovered its face, which she saw was
that Of Mr., Musgrave the clergyman, and
the cloak spread over him and round from
him in circle, wider ard wider, and the
white stream poured forth and foamed, and
met it, and the whole turned to white snow
and ice. But the red figure seemed all
wrapped in red fire, and the wine.stream
her, and beat against the snow and the
figure raised its hood and showed the face
of her husband Then suddenly she felt
r herself no longer child, but woman,
! with her arms around him, and her clothes
. caught fire from him, and they both burned
together. standing on field of fire, while
, the red streams devourcd the snow, and
I blGzed, but without smoke, over all the
D land.
. Then gigantic Death. all whose bones
. seemed icIcles, gldcd with swift strides
d over the field, and his cold breath put out
n The flames and CALLED them through. and
h they shrunk and fell together; and the
d Death took the bowl that had held the
o fiery wine, and filled it with the snow that
still lay in q patch around the white foun-
d tain, and poured i, over them once and
If again and yet again. She knew that i:
d was the silence OF the grave which he was
n pouring over them, till they were buried
:. under bill Of silent snow. But it fell
e softly and pleasantly upon them and calm
g ed their burning, aud so they slumbered in
d their grave, locked in each others arms
e them; yet its spirit sang, she thought, a,
|
" the bank.
Y While she dreamed thus, a gentle smile
N came over her face, and her mother knew
/, that her pans kad for 4 U:oment ceased.
,e CHAPTER XIII.
ID Hastings was an iuveteratc walker; ant
;, in the course Of one of his rambes he founc
a himself, after many hours exertion, we
IN and tired, close to Burnwood farm. II
err wen, in, and was. of course, hospiabl,
to received by Farmer Wilson and his wife
m as well as by James and Ann. They wer
ld going to dinner, aud invited him to jo
h, them, but proposed that he should frs
en- change his clothes which were thorough
p soaked James Offering to lend him SUIT q
al his own. Hastings gladly consented, an
ID. soon appeared in the young farmers Sun
at day garb. He had been so used to wea
he the costume Of different countries and char
Is acters. that nothing looked awkward o
-, him. James could not help iancving tina
m, the vis,er appeared to much more advan
IN, tage in the clothes than their true owner
a. Ann did no. Join in this opinion but sh
ID, was much amused at the spectacle {
another person than James in her cousin
he habiments, and was constantly hangn
lat although she acknowledged to herself tina
ne Hastings looked well and at case in b
Of new dress. The wet clothes were hun
ey up by the fi,e; and the whole party sat dow
I'd. to dinner, while one or other of the wome
en- wen, frequently to the ueighboring room {
SO, Elizabeth % see how she was. Has'ng
zen was delighted with his adventure, and al
me like n true farmer, aud talked so as to dra
nd out n Il The Information he could from bot
~, the Wilson's, often also, introducing wol
len for the women. He picked up many fac
to as to he peasantry. aud the modes of feclr
CHI and thinking Of the country people. II
zen also told some anecdotes from his travel
tn, which interested his new friends, and mat
art Ann open her eyes wide, and look at hi
lall as if some preternatural beng had sudden
q appeared in the well known clothes t.
the spoke of African huntings, Hlndoo murder
to the wi,chcralt OF American Indians, al
me the rowing robbers of Arabia and Persia;
volcanoes. crocodiles, and gold mines.
The mention of Juggling and magic i
re. him to speak Of many strange things tn
Ter. he had known of IN different countrlc
ted some of them easily to be explained, othe
chit apparently unntelglble, but not the le
we'd certain. He said, for instance. that on
,wn when residing in one of the West lnd
ged islands he had bought, and taken rather
her a favori'e than servant, handsome be
the coloured, or Of the mixed race, and clev
eer or twelve years old He was remarkab
of for the live'iest and mos, joyous spirits,
,wn well as for readiness and cearness of hea
lac. But after some weeks. without any seem
,ur> cause, the boy became melancholy and du
less and was evidently losing his health. /
Q master questioned him as to the reason
the this change, but he would give none, a
her, appeared terrified at he thought of conf
be. sing. After much persuasion, however,
lar hnrst inin Inns foil on his knpps and AZ