Don't carry the idee to the world that you have lost me, for I am nearer to you than I ever could have been on earth, for the clay has only fell off from my soul, leavin' the barrier but thin indeed between us now.
"'Don't act as if you wuz mournin' for me, dear heart.

Let the world see your thought, see the truth we both know, by its reflection in your face.' "These are my idees, Lateza Alzina," sez I; "but howsumever, in this, as in every other matter that don't have any moral wickedness in it, let everybody be fully persuaded in their own mind, if they have got a mind, and do as they want to, if they know what they want to do." Oren had looked real tickled all the while I had been speakin'.

And he stood there on his bright plaid legs, and smoothed out the ends of his gorgeous necktie with his yeller gloved hand, a happy and triumphant mean onto him.
And the girls and their ma stood round him like a flock of gay-plumaged birds, or a bokay of brilliant blossoms, and seemed real happified and contented.
Wall, they wuz a-boardin' way out to the other end of the city, almost 'leven milds from there, so they had to leave middlin' early.
And they all come back in the evenin', they said.

"They boarded a good ways out--they enjoyed the ride so much a-goin' and comin'." Sometimes I'm afraid the pendulum will break down, it swings so fur, and then agin I don't know.
But anyway, they bid me a glad adoo, and the proud and gay Oren led his brood off.
And to resoom.
The English Vestibule is decorated with panels painted by the wimmen of that country.

There wuz one by Mrs.Swimerton, of London, that appealed strong to my heart; it was a seen from the temporary hospital at Scutori.
Florence Nightingale stood in the foreground--good, pityin' female angel that she wuz--and all round her lay sick and dyin' soldiers, and she a-doin' all she could to help 'em.
This picture, showin' woman as a Healer and Consoler, is in the centre, as it ort to be.