A Novel.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "MARGARET'S ENGAGEMENT," "MY
INSECT QUEEN," &c.

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The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard,
The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky;

Are music sent up to GOD by the lover and the bard;
Enough that He heard it once; we shall hear it by-and-by."

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XI. ON THINGS IN GENERAL

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XII. WHAT I SAW BY THE RIVER-SIDE

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SISTER MAY.

1.-SYBIL'S PORTION.

CHAPTER I.

GOOD-BYE TO THE SCHOOLROOM.

AY-sweet sister May !-have you

"MAY!

forgotten what day it is?"

When Sybil asked me this question, I was busily employed in arranging on a book-shelf certain volumes, chiefly useful for the instruction of youth-books which had been presented to me, ten years ago, by thoughtful friends, when, little more than a girl myself, I had assumed the

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