g is this,--this depth of fervent love!"

The morrow came; came to all of our friends who were gathered around the
hearthstone of the widow Grosvenor, with joy, for genial rays, other
than of a May morning's sun, were in their hearts; yet those
indescribable tones, which under any circumstances hang around the
word--farewell, were gradually, unawares, jarring, jarring those gentler
notes of peace, even before spoken.

"Farewell!"--the mother strained her child to her heart again, and again
put her from her, to embrace her more closely. Farewell, came welling up
from that proud brother's heart, with the same breath, thanking God for
giving him a sister. Broken sobs measured the bitterness of the parting
of those down-trodden ones, who, "by an angel of mercy," had been lifted
up, to taste one drop of that bliss upon earth, which the white man
holds within his power to give or withhold. Farewell!--was it not that
one word, which marked the parting of those two, whose hearts had been
united above? "Adieu to my island home," said the Sea-flower, and the
wild waves whispered,--"we are lonely."

CHAPTER XI.

WE ARE GOING HOME.

"The sounds that fall on mortal ear
As dew-drops pure at even,
That soothe the breast, or start the tear,
Are Mother, Home, and Heaven.

"A home, that paradise below,
Of sunshine and of flowers,
Where hallowed joys perennial flow,
By calm celestial bowers."

ANONYMOUS.

Time wore heavily on with Winnie Santon, after Natalie had left them.
Left as she was, much in her unnatural mother's society, who seemed to
be never more pleased than when she might thwart her designs, or, in
some manner act so as to make those about her uncomfortable, it was not
to be wondered at, if she did sigh for other days, and a confidant, to
whom she might unburden her heart. Her father spent but a small portion
of his time at home; on the contrary, he rather sought to avoid the
fireside, which had once been so dear to him. His feelings, whatever
they might have been, were kept locked up within his own breast, yet
Winnie could read the look of sympathy which he bent upon her, as he
grasped her by the hand, ere he hurried away to banish painful
recollections by duties "on change." When difficulties, which Natalie
had foreseen, caused Winnie's heart to ache, she would school herself to
meet the injustice as she knew _she_ would have done; and the timely
advice of the S