7/16 "You are present to my thought all the day." "And you to mine. O yes! yes! We _are_ moving side by side; our mutual thought gives presence. Yet it was the bodily presence I desired. But that cannot be." "Good-bye, love! Good-bye, sweet one!" said Claire, kissing his wife, and gently pressing his lips upon those of the babe she held in her arms. He then passed forth, and took his way to the store of Leonard Jasper, in whose service he had been for two years, or since the date of his marriage. |