Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 106: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

She did not forget that Perey had always said that he should make a home for her, and they would live together, and for a long time she had looked forward to such a life as the very acme of her happiness. But, as we have before hinted, during the last year ‘a change had come o'er the spirit of her dream,” omg She had gradually come to feel that it could not be. ° She had always called herself Percy’s sister, and spoken of him as her brother to her teachers and mates, while she had ever submitted to his guidance as a younger sister naturally would to a brother several years older than herself. With Perey, however, it was different. Every year, as Hazel developed more and more into perfect womantood, he experienced greater satisfaction in the knowledge that she was of no kin to him. He knew he loved her with all his great heart—this queenly, beautiful girl, with her exuberant spirit, yet with a depth of character which few girls at her age possessed—and, secretly, he was planning to win her as his wife when her school days should be ended. - During the earlier part of the last school year he had come one evening to make her a little visit and he brought a gift with him—a charming little watch, which she had been longing to possess, but never dared to breathe her wish aloud. Hazel was delighted with it, and, in the excess of her pleasure, she clasped both hands about his arm, raised herself on the tips of her toes, aud kissed him. “Percy, you are the dearest brother in the world !”’ she cried, joy beaming from every feature of her lovely face. The quick open aasnod Ho ee and a look of ain contracted it, for she all the innocence and Frenderi of a child in this expression of Ree i ae.