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"Wonderful indeed!" I repeated, overco with an effort the horror

that had for a tio, in

vision or reality, I certainly saw you I could not forget your face It

has remained before my eyes ever since"

Her sone,

and it and her dient

I felt reassured, and continued more in the vein which hospitality

indicated, to bid her welcome, and to tell her how iven us all, and especially what a happiness it

was to me

I took her hand as I spoke I was a little shy, as lonely people are,

but the situation made me eloquent, and even bold She pressed lowed, as, looking hastily into

ain, and blushed

She answered my welco; and she said: "I e that you and

I should have had, each of the other so vivid a drea as we do nohen of course we

both were mere children I was a child, about six years old, and I awoke