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apple and pear blossoms shook their fragrance in the

warm air—and the shadows of the flying clouds hurried like wings over the

bright green grass. The boy had dropped his basket of fresh-blown flowers

at his feet—tears were trembling in his eyelids, as he gazed on his

sisters. His look was that of George.

 

“Childhood too has its sorrows,” said Sir Henry, half aloud, “even when

seeking joy on a bank of primroses. Why should I then repine?”

 

The boy started as he heard and saw the stranger:—he involuntarily put

one foot forward in an attitude of childish defiance: but children are

keen physiognomists, and there was nothing but affection beaming from that

mournful face.

 

“My boy!” said Delmé, and his eyes were moist, “did you ever hear of your

Uncle Henry?”

 

“Emily! Emily! Julia!” exclaimed the little fellow, as he rushed into Sir

Henry’s arms, “here is Uncle Henry, my god-papa, and he will help us to

reach the blackberries.”

 

We need follow the wanderer no further. It is true that in his youth he

had not known sympathy; in his manhood he had experienced sorrow; but

it is a pleasure to us to reflect, that despair is not the companion of

his old age.

 

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