YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



nosed, white-breasted, white-mittened figure 

 went gliding after. Wherever I slept, he 

 watched and waited for my waking, with 

 his plaintive and oft-repeated "Pur-r-ra- 

 me-ow!" 



I began to be happy and content, because 

 I was surrounded by love, the true Heart's- 

 ease. Aunt Mary would read aloud to the 

 doctor mamma's letters all about the won- 

 derful lands they were journeying through, 

 and the letters always ended with thanking 

 them both for all the love and care they were 

 giving her little Fairy, and sent her love and 

 papa's to me. So I began to hope I should 

 sometime see their dear faces again, but 

 aunt Mary found she must not say they 

 were coming, because I watched and lis- 

 tened so intently day in and day out. 



I would lie in the big reclining-chair be- 

 side her while she made beautiful lace, in 

 the long winter evenings, and I slept on her 

 arm at night. When the early spring days 

 came, I had a splendid race all around the 

 garden with old Sportum every morning; 

 I was so spry, he had to cut across lots to 

 catch me. 



Sometimes I would have on my brown 



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