"Imogen -and  Sarah  can  have  one  of  their  neigh-
bors' horses  and  wagons  whenever  they  like,''  said
she,  "and  they  will  carry  me  home  if  I  want  them
to."

A  strange  maidenly  shyness  of  her  own  bliss  and
happiness,  which  she  longed  to  repeat,  was  upon  her.
She  had  not  told  Lawrence  what  her  errand  in  Gran-
by  was.  The  truth  was  that  she  had  planned  her
new  gown  because  Lawrence  had  come  home,  and
she  was  anxious  to  wear  it  to  meeting  in  the  hope
that  he  might  admire  her  in  it.  Should  she  betray
this  artless  preening  and  trimming  of  her  maiden
plumage,  which,  though,  like  a  bird's,  an  open  secret
of  nature,  must  nevertheless  be  kept  sacred  by  an
impulse  of  modest  concealment  and  deceit  towards
the  one  for  whose  sake  it  all  was  ?


They  who  have  Betisitive  palatea  for  all  Btnall,
Bweet,  but  secondary  savors  of  life  that  come  in  their
way,  and  no  imaginative  desires  for  others,  are  con-
tented in  spirit.  When  also  small  worries  and  af-
fairs, even  those  of  their  neighbors  in  lieu  of  their
own,  serve  them  as  well  as  large  ones  to  keep  their
minds  to  a  healthy  temper  of  excitement  and  zest  of
life,  there  is  no  need  to  pity  them  for  any  lack  of  full
experience.
