R HAIR" " 308

"IT IS, OR SHOULD BE, OVER THERE" " 328

"MISS LOIS SIGHED DEEPLY" " 350

"JULY WALKED IN FRONT, WITH HIS GUN OVER
HIS SHOULDER" " 374

"SHE TRIED TO RISE, BUT HE HELD HER ARM WITH
BOTH HANDS" " 386

"WEAK, HOLDING ON BY THE TREES" " 392

"SAW HER SLOWLY ASCEND THE HOUSE STEPS" " 408

"ANNE, STILL AS A STATUE" " 432

"HE ROSE, AND TOOK HER COLD HANDS IN HIS" " 460

"HE OBEYED WITHOUT COMMENT" " 498

"THE SECOND BOAT, WHICH WAS FARTHER UP THE
LAKE, CONTAINED A MAN" " 514

"HE REACHED THE WINDOWS, AND PEEPED THROUGH
A CRACK IN THE OLD BLIND" " 530

ANNE.

CHAPTER I.

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing boy;
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy.
The youth who daily farther from the East
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day."

--WORDSWORTH.

"It is but little we can do for each other. We accompany the youth
with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of
the arena, but it is certain that not by strength of ours, or by
the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or
to any, he must stand or fall."--EMERSON.

"Does it look well, father?"

"What, child?"

"Does this look well?"

William Douglas stopped playing for a moment, and turned his head toward
the speaker, who, standing on a ladder, bent herself to one side, in
order that he might see the wreath of evergreen, studded with cones,
which she had hung on the wall over one of the small arched windows.

"It is too compact, Anne, too heavy. There should be sprays falling from
it here and there, like a real vine. The greenery, dear, should be
either growing naturally upward or twining; large branches standing in
the corners like trees, or climbing vines. Stars, stiff circles, and set
shapes should be avoided. That wreath looks as though it had been planed
by a car