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CHAPTER V.

THE PLEDGE OF FRIENDSHIP.

"A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest  The sound of my name.

"As the young bride remembers her mother, Whom she loves, though she never may see; As the sister remembers her brother—  So, dear one! remember thou me."

One fine spring day, shortly after Alice's visit to Nurse's Farm, she had wandered in the early afternoon down to the sea-shore, and stood awhile idly looking out over the quiet water. Alice, who still retained all the impulsiveness of her childish days, and was still, as then, influenced by every atmospheric change, and sensitively affected by every modification of the many phases of Nature (with whom she lived in terms of the closest intimacy), grew buoyant with delight at the perfect beauty of the day, and