s anything more than a girlish vagary; and when she quoted
Latin, you thought innocently that she had a capital memory for her
samplers.

But to be bored eternally about divine Dante and funny Goldoni is too
bad. Your copy of Tasso, a treasure print of 1680, is all bethumbed
and dog's-eared, and spotted with baby gruel. Even your Seneca--an
Elzevir--is all sweaty with handling. She adores La Fontaine, reads
Balzac with a kind of artist scowl, and will not let Greek alone.

You hint at broken rest and an aching head at breakfast, and she will
fling you a scrap of Anthology--in lien of the camphor-bottle--or chant
the [Greek] _alai alai_ of tragic chorus.

The nurse is getting dinner; you are holding the baby; Peggy is reading
Bruyere.

The fire smoked thick as pitch, and puffed out little clouds over the
chimney-piece. I gave the fore-stick a kick; at the thought of Peggy,
baby, and Bruyere.

Suddenly the flame flickered bluely athwart the smoke--caught at a twig
below--rolled round the mossy oak-stick--twined among the crackling
tree-limbs--mounted--lit up the whole body of smoke, and blazed out
cheerily and bright. Doubt vanished with smoke, and hope began with
flame.

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