o eart,  be said to form one tree—a ruin, but an entire ruin.

    “You did rigo  to eacer-splinters  be a little sense of life in you yet, rising out of t ad t roots: you  you are not desolate: eaco sympat tarily in t part of t; so tantly in t of cloud. t far aer, poured a o listen to, and I ran off again.

    rayed tree roots reo t tore-room. to to ascertain er o see a cime, and burnt : I let doain, and  in ready for ligless ted ts I could not sit still, nor even remain in ttle time-piece in taneously struck ten.

    “e it groo tes: it is moonlig intervals; I can see a good o meet es of suspense.”

    t trees  to t , ill and solitary: save for t at intervals as t, it  a long pale line, unvaried by one moving speck.

    A puerile tear dimmed my eye ment and impatience; as, I  a ain of dense cloud: t gre on the gale.

    “I   nigo me. I interpreted it as a er. I feared my oo brigo be realised; and I ely t I imagined my fortune s meridian, and must now decline.

    “ell, I cannot return to t; “I cannot sit by t ter tire my limbs train my ; I  him.”

    I set out; I , but not far: ere I er of a mile, I ramp of iment! It .  ery brigook  off, and  round o meet him.

    “tretc  from t do  me, t is evident. Step on my boot-toe; give me bot!”

    I obeyed: joy made me agile: I sprang up before y kissing I got for a ful triumpation to demand, “But is tter, Janet, t you come to meet me at suching wrong?”

    “No, but I t you  bear to  in this rain and w