Her poor father could not endure London." "Miss Ashleigh is fond of reading ?" "Yes, she is fond of reading, but more fond of musing.

She will sit by herself for hours without book or work, and seem as abstracted as if in a dream.

She was so even in her earliest childhood.

Then she would tell me what she had been conjuring up to herself.

She would say that she had seen--positively seen--beautiful lands far away from earth; flowers and trees not like ours.