Beadle's Dime Novels No. 14 — page 106: what you’re looking at

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104 THE EMERALD NECKLACE. CHAPTER XY. EXPECTATION. “ Wreathe we a wedding chaplet.” And we rar oh, how we talk’d! her voice so cadenced in the t With the lealy sound of woodlands, humming round where we were walking. — Mrs. Brownina. “‘So many sweet secrets to breathe to each other.” ; Ir was one of the most gorgeous of autumn days, about a week before the eighteenth of October, that a carriage paused before the little avenue leading up to the stone cottage, and a | Jady with an incredible amount of baggage was landed from it. “What a sweet, rustic, delicious place,’ murmured Miss Sloane, for it was she. “ Pennon said truly that it was a se- cluded Eden—and it holds an Eve that never sinned.” “*O fairest of the rural maids! as Bryant says, I seek you _ in the midst of befitting beauty,” she cried, as Clematis came hastening down the path to meet her. Both the girls laughed and blushed as they kissed each other, as if they had been lovers. “You promised to be my bridemaid, and it seems that I am to be yours,” said Clematis. “ And I am so happy—are not you, dearest ?” “Oh, very! but it seems so strange !—I can not realize it.” “Nor I, either. I hardly dare think of it.” “Who would have dreamed it, the first time we saw each other ?” “Ah, who would ?” “Come in and see mother. I will send Peter to bring in the baggage, and then we will have lunch; and then we can talk over what we have to do, while you lie down and rest.” “Oh, I'm neither tired nor hungry. After I have spoken with your beloved mamma, I should love to walk throngh the comiciooks.conmn