I knew that one look from you would do all that my prayers failed to accomplish.

We must go, Marion; it is time to re-enter the house." "Miss Arleigh," said Allan Lyster, "when I wake to-morrow, I shall fancy all this but a dream.

Will you give me something to make me remember that it is indeed a happy reality ?" "What shall I give you ?" asked the girl.
"You have held that spray of apple blossoms in your hand all the evening," he said, "give me that." She laughed and held it out to him.
"Thank you," he said; "now that you have touched it it ought not to die." "Do all artists talk like you, Mr.Lyster ?" "When the same subject inspires them," he replied, and then Adelaide reminded them again that time was flying, and they must be gone.
A few more minutes and the handsome young artist was walking quickly down the high road.

He had succeeded beyond his wildest expectations.

He felt as sure of winning the beautiful young heiress as though he had placed already a wedding ring upon her finger.