Queenie's whim, Volume 2 (of 3)

Queenie gave a little start and cry of suppressed pleasure, and then the color rushed over her face. With sudden impulse, as involuntary as it was graceful, she held out her han...

The next week or two passed pleasantly and quickly. The girls adhered rigidly to their course of self-improvement, despite the temptation afforded by summer days. During the fre...

"Women do not like a man the worse for having many favorites, if he desert them all for her. She fancies that she herself has the power of fixing the wanderer; that other women...

"I ask thee for a thoughtful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And wipe the weeping eyes; And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe...

"Yes; keep me calm, though loud and rude The sounds my ears that greet; Calm in the closet's solitude, Calm in the bustling street; Calm in the hour of buoyant health, Calm in m...

"She knew not what was lacking, Knew not until it came; She gave it the name of friendship, But that was not its name. And the truth could not be hidden From her own clear-seein...

Queenie entered upon her new duties with an ardor that would have surprised any one acquainted with the real state of the case. If a feeling of amusement sometimes crossed her m...

"A penny for your thoughts, little Emmie," cried Garth gaily, a few evenings afterwards, when his abrupt entrance had broken up a somewhat silent group. The child, who was sitti...

"She prayed me not to judge their cause from her, That wrong'd it, sought far less for truth than power In knowledge; something wild within her breast, A greater than all knowle...

"I wonder how women of thirty-five feel under these circumstances," thought Cathy, as she followed the others up the narrow dark staircase leading to Miss Cosie's neat sanctum....

"Even her little mirror Bore witness to the change; For to love the face within it Was something; new and strange. She had looked before and seen it So thin and hard and grey; L...

A few days after Dr. Stewart's garden visit Emmie came running up the gravel walk at Brier wood Cottage with a frightened face. Queenie, who was sitting in the porch as usual, p...

"When they see her their tears will cease to flow, Lest they should fall on this pure pale brow, Or the lilies the child is holding. With symbol flowers in stainless hand, She g...

Garth felt a little excited as he went up to the porch-room to dress for dinner; to put on his war-paint as he told himself with a little grimace. Garth was a handsome man, and...