HOW STORRI MADE AN OFFER OF HIS LOVE At the brow of red and those angry eyes like stars, Bess smiled superior, in beaming toleration and affection.

Bess could afford these benevolences, being now engaged in that most delightful of all Christian tasks to a woman, viz., superintending the love-romance of another woman.

She swept sweetly down on Dorothy; and even Richard, albeit full to blindness of his own great passion, could not help but see that she was as graceful as a goddess.
Bess placed a hand on each of Dorothy's shoulders, and kissed her brow where the angry red, already in doubt as to the propriety of its presence, was trying to steal away unnoticed.
"What have I done ?" said Bess, as though repeating a query put by Dorothy.

"Now I no more than found a wanderer, who loves you almost as dearly as you love him, and who would not see the way to go straight to you with his offer of a heart.

He was for traveling miles and miles around, no one knows how many, by all kinds of hesitating roads.