Beadle's Dime Novels No. 20: Florida; or, The Iron Will — page 16: what you’re looking at

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14 FLORIDA; OR, THE TRON WILL. heart. OT what honey they had! Honey and milk, or their semblance, at least, must bé angels’ food.” « J was just gomg to say that you should never eat and drink in our house, but since honey and milk satisfy you, perhaps you may. We'll set you a white cloth, too—a relic of my mother’s family—a perfect wonder of whiteness and beauty— atid if you can not eat Florida’s cooking, you can enjoy none. She is an artist at that, and sets her table, I sometimes tell her, as if it were going to have its portrait taken. We have old silver and cut glass, too, for company; so when will you come? I’m going home now.” They both walked slowly out of the grove, treading daintily + upon embroidery, silver-like, that they touched no sooner than it overlapped’ their feet and sometimes ran in waving lines like shining floss up to their very faces. | They stood on’the left side of the little quaint homestead. The moon shed floods of amber luster all ‘over its old-fash- - joried porch, rich with hanging honeysuckles—made the queer, diamond-paned windows glitter as-with pale fire, and showed the wealth of flowers that grew in the cultivated garden. It stood so boldly out from the shadows of the trees grouped around it, that every shingle—every spot of green and yellow moss upon its roof—every ledge, swallow’s nest, window-sill, and tiny creeper was distinctly penciled by the wonderful limning of the moonlight. “Ts a dear old home.” half’ sighed Virginia, as though fearing that in the fur away future there was a prospect of leaving it for another. é' “The oldest in the country, isn’t it ” asked Parker. “Yes; my ancestors among the pilgrims came over from Plymouth, and were the first, or nearly the first, settlers here. When Florida is in one of her best moods, I'll take you im to see the old leathern-covered chair that was brought from Holland —the ‘most curious old thing! And then we have silver, dating from 1600—not much worn, it seems, either, only some of the ornaments rather flattened. If mother is She started—there was a step near them, and a sound 26 of the breaking ofa branch ; but if any one had it was done so quickly that neither saw what nor who. comicbooks.com