YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



Oh, how I danced about then! How 1 

 flew to the window; how I listened at the 

 door, and strained my eyes to watch the long, 

 curving driveway, and looked out to the 

 eastward across the Cove, where I had seen 

 them disappearing, so many months before. 



"It would be dreadful for the little heart, 

 now, if they should not come,' said aunt 

 Mary. 



So, between hope and fear, we watched 

 and waited. The clock kept telling off the 

 hours, more than I could count. The day 

 was almost half gone, when, suddenly, there 

 came the rattle of wheels in the gravel drive, 



- a carriage was approaching, hidden by 

 the shrubbery, from the south entrance. 



I flew through aunt Mary's palms and 

 ferns, I never knew how, and pressed my 

 little face against the glass, trembling from 

 head to foot, my eyes big with anxious ex- 

 pectancy. 



I couldn't find a voice to bark, my feelings 

 were too intense; my breath came with little 

 quivering gasps. 



Yes! Oh yes! A lady was stepping 

 from the carriage. Was it mamma ? I had 



never seen that dress nor that hat before, 



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