YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



juniper trees, overhanging the sea, and sat 

 there very meditatively, as though he were 

 turning over and^ over in his thoughts some 

 great but happy venture, I knew he was 

 hoping those blue heart's-ease eyes would 

 follow him. But their possessor sat still 

 on the porch, just as meditatively pulling 

 a red rose to pieces, each all too conscious 

 of the other's whereabouts. I, too, was ill 

 at ease. 



So I crept up stealthily and plucked 

 away my lady's filmy lace handkerchief and 

 flew away down the shell walk with it, and 

 laid it at Gaylord's feet as he sat there alone. 



He picked it up eagerly and laid it in his 

 broad palm, and looked down upon it with 

 such a tender smile in his dark eyes, as 

 though it were some little live thing. Then 

 he waved it gently to and fro, as a man 

 would handle a cobweb, and breathed its 

 faint, violet odor. 



'You little good Fairy! How keen your 

 beautiful eyes are!" he whispered, giving 

 me a love-pat. I could see he longed to 

 keep the fleecy little thing, and finally he 

 folded it and hid it away in his breast pocket, 

 instead of sending me back with it. 

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