YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



pink lids, just peeping from under his 

 shaggy top-knot what a sight he was ! 

 I could hardly feel jealous, but I tilted my 

 dainty nose and pretended not to notice 

 him. 



Papa and mamma had entered the hall, 

 and turning on the bright light looked up 

 for me and saw me "laughing" down upon 

 them, as papa called it, for, in anticipation 

 of his playfully pinching my slender nose in 

 welcome, and expecting the funny feeling of 

 his fingers every moment, I had gotten into 

 the way of drawing back my delicate lips 

 and displaying my pearly teeth; and from 

 that I soon learned that the little grimace 

 pleased him, and knew what he meant when 

 he said, to show me off: 



"Now Fairy, laugh!" and I would imme- 

 diately display my faultless teeth again, wag- 

 ging and tossing my head. 



"What a perfect contrast!" said mamma, 

 turning from my slender, graceful figure 

 and great shining brown eyes to the little 

 shapeless tangle at her feet; "but," she 

 added, "there is something beautiful in his 

 perfect homeliness." 



I knew she was praising me, in a way, as 



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