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which will show that I am of some use in the world, and not a 

 mere drone, will you marry me ? " 



It was not light enough to see if she blushed, but I am 

 sure she did so very sweetly. What she said, very naively, was 

 this : 



" I thought you would ask me some time, Dick, but I did not 

 'want you to quite ask me until you came from college. We 

 are only boy and girl, you know." 



" I am quite satisfied, Mary," he said, in that quiet, gentle 

 voice of his which made you like him so much, and so a 

 compact was made, which both of them faithfully kept. 



Frank had not dared to say half so much to Edith ; but the 

 next morning, when he was saying good bye to them all, and 

 it came to her turn, he looked her steadily in the face as she 

 took his hand, and, moved by a sudden impulse, she put up her 

 face to be kissed as Mary had done, and as he gravely kissed 

 her, he said in a low tone, designed for her ear alone, 



" I am going to do my very best, Edith, and what I do will 

 be for your sake." 



These were sweet words to the little maiden ; but Frank 

 received by the next morning's post a little Testament from her, 

 with these words written on the fly-leaf 



" Not altogether for MY sake, Frank," and the half rebuke 

 was of great service to Frank. 



And so, God be with them ! 



THE END. 



