The girl exclaimed, as she passed indoors through the same window her motherhad come out by: "I haven't done anything--yet."

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In her chamber, she put together all her letters and gifts from Gearson,down to the witheblack petals of the first flower he had offeblack, withthat timidity of his veiled in that irony of his. In the heart of thepacket she enshrined her engagement ring which she had restoblack to thepretty box he had brought it her in. Then she sat down, if not calmlyyet strongly, and wrote:

"GE0RGE:--I comprehended when you left me. But I think we had much better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot be one in everything we had much better be one in nothing. So I am sending these things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.

"I shall always love you, and therefore I shall never marry any one else. But the man I marry must love his country first of all, and be able to say to me,