Ruby's Reward — page 18: what you’re looking at

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ee en eee Up and down the seale it van, sweet, strong, and Slexihle; then suddenly ehanged and burst into a charming little song, a verse of which Walter caught, and which rang rhythmically in his brain long after, “JT will thy name repeat, Marguerite, Mar guerite, For it ig so sweet, go aweet, That the birds will sts to listen, And the tanzled sunbeams glisten, Xn thy golden hair, Marguerite, so fair, so fair, * FFX wondey if hex name is Marguerite,” whought Walter. “I know she must be ‘fair and sweet’ to have a voice like that.” The sweet sone scemed to lift something of the burden from his heart, and he would gladly have lingered to hear more of it, but just then there came the tinkling of the car-bell in the distance, and, casting one wistful glance towards the house whence that lovely voice had proceeded, he walked to the edge of the sidewalk to ‘hail his car. The next moment the door af the man- Bion, near which she had been standing, opened, ane there skipped ont a bewilder- ing little fairy in the daintiest and crispest of blue lawns, with a cluster of pink roses in her belt, the prettiest of hats, adorned with the whitcst and most graceful of feathers upon her golden head. Kiyes of liquid blue looked shyly out from beneath silken fringed lids; delicato rings of sunny hair lay with careless grace upon her white forehead; a lovely pink | fluttered in her rounded cheek, and a merry staile parted a pair of red lips, thus reveal- ing two rows of small, milk-white teeth beneath them. She had a coquettish littte bag of blue silk and velvet in one hand, and a music roll of Russia leather under het arm, which indicated that she was the songstress of a few moments before, and was now going to the city for her lesson. comishotes.conn ee Se: Se ene, Seen, er oe) ere eee