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Rh blossom that put forth was a new link in our intimacy.

"I wish I could do anything to oblige you," was my exclamation at the sight of my first carnation.

"Oh," exclaimed she, the soft colour warming into her cheek with eagerness, "you are a great reader, would you sometimes come and read to my grandmother?" This I easily obtained permission to do, and that very evening I went with Lucy to Mrs. Selby's. The cottage where she lived stood alone in a little nook between our park and the churchyard; yew trees were on the one side, and our cedars on the other, but the garden itself seemed a very fairyland of sunshine; a jessamine covered the front with its long trailing green branches, and its white delicate blossoms. The porch was enlivened by that rare and odoriferous shrub, the yellow musk rose; It is the only one I have ever seen, but of a summer evening, it covered that little portal with gold, and filled the whole air with its