"
"It is very good, indeed, but I fear you are too young to appreciate
it. There is an analysis of character that requires much mind
knowledge, and that is why so many young girls consider it dry. If
I were to explain it fully you would not understand; but you can
read the volume through, and we will have a little chat when you
have finished. I hope my little sister will not be impulsive and
moody as the heroine."
Phillip then patted the golden curls, and as he stooped to kiss the
pretty pouting lips he saw a fair vision of a lovely maiden, no
longer a child on her brother's knee, but a sweet and amiable
maiden, with a subdued and thoughtful look that showed she had
struck a sympathetic chord in a fond brother's breast and given him
the devotion of her first and purest love.
Then the dreamer vainly tried to draw another picture; but all was
chaos. No bright form could be exorcised from the conglomerate heap.
All was disorder--a ruined mound of buried hopes!--a blackness dark
as the Stygian shore.
"Is it not nice that we have a Public Library now!" cried the child
in gleeful tone, so sadly in contrast to her brother's thoughts.
"It is, indeed, Puss.
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