The Argosy — page 175: what you’re looking at

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ba 160 What ts the Meaning of lt? I had awakened from a horrible, fevered nightmare. I have often seen Mrs. Amory since, but never by a single word has she alluded to the secret which she knows lies between us. But in crowded drawing-rooms, where she has been moving about with her lazy, sumptuous gracefulness, taking the sentimental view of everything, I have often felt her suddenly watching me. She never again met the Rev. Thomas Clark. We are all scattered now; and when I think of the minister’s circumstantial story of the phantom of a woman he scarcely knew, and of the circumstantial verification thereof, known only to myself, I can but ask the question. of my title—‘‘ What is the meaning of it?” ee eS eG Ne oo oe MIZPAH. ‘‘ The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.” A BROAD gold band engraven With word of Holy Writ— A ring, the bond and token Which love and prayer hath lit. When absent from each other O’er mountain, vale, and sea, The Lord, who guarded Israel, Keep watch ‘tween me and thee. Through days of light and gladness, Through days of love and life, Through smiles, and joy, and sunshine, Through days with beauty rife : When absent from each other, O’er mountain, vale, and sea, The Lord of love and gladness Keep watch ‘tween me and thee. Through days of doubt and darkness, In fear and trembling breath ; Through mists of sin and sorrow In tears, and grief, and death,— The Lord of life and glory, The King of earth and sea, The Lord, who guarded Israel, Keep watch tween me and thee. Gomicbooks