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Rh in each folded blossom. "How cheerful everything looks," exclaimed Julia: "just as if I were not going away!" Poor child, she and her sister walked on hand in hand, casting sorrowful looks at the shining leaves, and the sweet flowers, which had so long been their companions. To their young eyes a shadow rested on all they saw, they were now learning the bitter lesson how the little world of the human heart gives its own likeness to the vast universe of which it is but an atom.

But the long shadows of the early morning began to shorten, and the children, hurrying to an old sundial that stood beside the lake in the park, saw that it was time to return home. They only staid to give the remainder of the bread to the swans that came sweeping over the bright expanse at their approach. "Good bye," again exclaimed Julia in a scarcely audible whisper, and snatching her sister's hand, they ran in silence to the house. Eda and breakfast were waiting for them, but the hearts of all were too full to eat. The nurse was the only one who attempted to