YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



old friend, bearing his credentials with him, 

 and warm welcome and hearty greetings 

 followed. 



He was just out of college, and going far 

 away over the sea, to carve out his fortune, 

 he told them. 



"So you are fancy free?" asked mamma. 



" Oh, yes fancy free without even an 

 image in my heart," he laughed, and struck 

 his broad breast gayly, but, in the very act, 

 he cast a furtive glance, all unconsciously to 

 himself, at Beulah's downcast lids with their 

 long, fringed lashes sweeping her suffused 

 cheeks, and that moment, mamma said 

 afterward, Cupid, that little mischievous 

 elf, who had landed, no one knew how or 

 when, on our peaceful island, filled his 

 quiver with keenest arrows. 



But I held out against the winning 

 stranger just as long as I could. I sulked 

 and moped, and stood aloof from their 

 happy strolls and mutual talks, till finally, 

 one day, I was so grieved and lonely, I broke 

 down and went creeping up, trembling, into 

 Beulah's white arms, and with little pitiful 

 cries, covered her sweet, warm neck with 

 kisses. She seemed to suddenly understand 



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