"I would be very careful of it, and would return it immediately as soon as I had read it.

I should be so interested in reading it." "Certainly, if you wish," said Ellen, "but I am afraid you won't think it is good." "Of course I shall.

I have been hearing about it, how good it was, and how you broke up the whole house." Ellen blushed.

"Oh, that was only because it was the valedictory.
They always clap a good deal for the valedictory." "It was because it was you, you dear beauty," thought the young man, gazing at her, and the impulse to take her in his arms and kiss that blush seized upon him.

"I know they applauded your valedictory because it was worthy of it," said he, and Ellen's eyes fell before his, and the blush crept down over her throat, and up to the soft toss of hair on her temples.