she. "As I continued to mark and read of your
great career in life, the marvellous successes which met you in each new
enterprise, how with advancing fortune you ever showed yourself equal to
the demand made upon your genius, I thought with shame and humiliation
over even my childish follies, how often I must have grieved--have hurt
you! Over and over have I said, 'Does he ever remember? Can he forgive
me?' And yet there was a sense of exquisite pleasure in the midst of
all my sorrow as I thought over all these childish vanities, and said to
myself, 'This man, whom all are now flattering and fawning upon, was the
same I used to irritate with my caprices, and worry with my whims!'"

"I never dreamed that you remembered me," said he, in a voice tremulous
with delight.

"Your career made a romance for me," said she, eagerly. "I could repeat
many of those vigorous speeches you made,--those spirited addresses.
One, in particular, I remember well; it was when refusing the offer of
the Athlone burgesses to represent their town; you alluded so happily
to the cares which occupied you,--less striking than legislative duties,
but not less important,--or, as you phrased it, yours was like the
part of those 'who sound the depth and buoy the course that thundering
three-deckers are to follow.' Do you remember the passage? And again,
that proud humility with which, alluding to the wants of the poor, you
said, 'I, who have carried my musket in the ranks of the people!' Let me
tell you, sir," added she, playfully, "these are very haughty avowals,
after all, and savor just as much of personal pride as the insolent
declarations of many a pampered courtier!"

Dunn's face grew crimson, and his chest swelled with an emotion of
intense delight.

"Shall I own to you," continued she, still running on with what seemed
an irrepressible freedom, "that it appears scarcely real to me to be
here talking to you about yourself, and your grand enterprises, and your
immense speculations. You have been so long to my mind the great genius
of wondrous achievements, that I cannot yet comprehend the condescension
of your strolling along here as if this world could spare you."

If Dunn did not speak, it was that his heart was too full for words; but
he pressed the round arm that leaned upon him closer to his side, and
felt a thrill of happiness through him.

"By the way," said she, after a pause, "I have a favor to ask of you:
papa would be charmed to ha