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"Not I!" said Priscilla "I will live and die with these!"

"Well; but let the future go," resumed I "As for the present moment,

if we could look into the hearts where ish to be most valued, what

should you expect to see? One's own likeness, in the innermost,

holiest niche? Ah! I don't know! It e, thrust aside into a corner, and by and by to be flung

out of doors, where any foot may trample upon it If not to-day, then

to- so

very merry in this kind of a world"

It had taken me nearly seven years of worldly life to hive up the

bitter honey which I here offered to Priscilla And she rejected it!

"I don't believe one word of what you say!" she replied, laughing anew

"Youabout the past; but the past

never coain Do we drea else that I arass, as it was often her

luck to do, but got up again, without any harsworth, as sitting on the

doorstep; "you had better not run any ht You eary

yourself too much And do not sit down out of doors, for there is a