' Will you, dear? Believe
me, you shall never know a weariness or grief I
have the power to shield you from."
Then Nan, as simple in her love as in her life,
laid her arms about his neck, her happy face against
his own, and answered softly,--
"Oh, John, I never can be sad or tired any
more!"
DEBBY'S DEBUT.
On a cheery June day Mrs. Penelope Carroll
and her niece Debby Wilder, were whizzing along
on their way to a certain gay watering-place, both
in the best of humors with each other and all the
world beside. Aunt Pen was concocting sundry
mild romances, and laying harmless plots for the
pursuance of her favorite pastime, match-making;
for she had invited her pretty relative to join her
summer jaunt, ostensibly that the girl might see a
little of fashionable life, but the good lady secretly
proposed to herself to take her to the beach and
get her a rich husband, very much as she would
have proposed to take her to Broadway and get her
a new bonnet: for both articles she considered
necessary, but somewhat difficult for a poor girl
to obtain.
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