I have been abroad, fighting all the summer and frozen up all the winter, ever since.

I have come back as poor in purse as I went, and crippled for life besides.

But, Dolly, I would rather have lost this other arm--ay, I would rather have lost my head--than have come back to find you dead, or anything but what I always pictured you to myself, and what I always hoped and wished to find you.

Thank God for all!' Oh how much, and how keenly, the little coquette of five years ago, felt now! She had found her heart at last.

Never having known its worth till now, she had never known the worth of his.