Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 159
d by its verystrength, it should part asunder and allow him toperceive the girl among its phantoms ? Why, atleast, did no smile of welcome brighten upon hisface ? She was come, the maid whose soul, accord-ing to the old and beautiful idea, had been severedfrom his own, and whom, in all his vague… … his side ; should it pass away, its happy luster wouldnever gleam upon his life again. How sound he sleeps ! murmured the girl. She departed, but did not trip along the road solightly as when she came. Now, this girls father was a thriving countrymerchant in the neighborhood, and happened, atthat…
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