SWAYING TREE TOPS 



greeted his grand-daughter was not 

 that which came from a man who had 

 looked upon women as a pastime. 

 If my talk ran into the channel with 

 his, it was not through indifference 

 to her who sat near, but because hi$ 

 conversation secerned to be so like 

 her own that it was one wide current 

 of her mind and his. 



I wondered if her mother, to whom 

 she had referred, was like her and 

 him. I thought of such a trio, living 

 the life of natural beauty and sim- 

 plicity, and the charm of it kept me 

 silent so long I quite forgot where 

 I was. It was only when the old man 

 went away with his basket, and the 

 cat I had forgotten sprang upon my 

 knee, that I came back to the fact 

 that I had rested long enough and 



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