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ical missile, spirally revolving around the line of flight; that is, with the arrow-rifle. EDWARD C. BRUCE. TWO MIRRORS. My love but breathed upon the glass, And, lo! upon the crystal sheen A tender mist did straightway pass, And raised its jealous veil between. But quick, as when Aurora's face Is hid behind some transient shroud, The sun strikes through with golden grace, And she emerges from the cloud; So from her eyes celestial light Shines on the mirror's cloudy plain, And swift the envious mist takes flight, And shows her lovely face again. When o'er the mirror of my heart, Wherein her image true endures, Some misty doubt doth sudden start, And all the sweet reflex obscures, There beams such glow from her clear eyes That swift the rising mists are laid; And, fixed again, her image lies, All lovelier for the passing shade. F.A. HILLARD. MALCOLM. BY GEORGE MACDONALD, AUTHOR OF "ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD," "ROBERT FALCONER," ETC. CHAPTER LXIV. THE LAIRD AND HIS MOTHER. When Malcolm and Joseph set out from Duff Harbor to find the laird, they could hardly be said to have gone in search of him: all in their power was to seek the parts where he was occasionally seen, in the hope of chancing upon him; and they wandered in vain about the woods of Fife House all that week, returning disconsolate every evening to the little inn on the banks of the Wan Water. Sunday came and went without yielding a trace of him; and, almost in despair, they resolved, if unsuccessful the next day, to get assistance and organize a search for him. Monday passed like the days that had preceded it, and they were returning dejectedly down the left bank of the Wan Water in the gloaming, and nearing a part where it is hemmed in by precipitous rocks and is very narrow and deep, crawling slow and black under the lofty arch of an ancient bridge that spans it at one leap, when suddenly they caught sight of a head peering at them over the parapet. They dared not run for fear of terrifying him if it should be the laird, and hurried quietly to the spot. But when they reached the end of the bridge its round back was bare from end to end. On the other side of the river the trees came close up, and pursuit was hopeless in the gathering darkness. "Laird, laird! they've ta'en awa' Phemy, an' we dinna ken whaur to luik for her," cried the poor fath
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