It's hard enough to leave you as it is, when I've just found you again after all these years.

I've had the most beautiful visit that ever was, and you've all been awfully dear and nice.

'Kiss me quick and let me go,' as the song says.

I only wish Burnet was next door to West Cedar Street!" Next day Mr.Browne sailed away with his "handful of Roses," as Elsie sentimentally termed them (and indeed, Rose by herself would have been a handful for almost any man); and Clover, like Lord Ullin, was "left lamenting." Cousin Helen remained, however; and it was not till she too departed, a week later, that Clover fully recognized what it meant to have Katy married.

Then indeed she could have found it in her heart to emulate Eugenie de la Ferronayes, and shed tears over all the little inanimate objects which her sister had left behind,--the worn-out gloves, the old dressing slippers in the shoe-bag.