The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.

A DREAM OF QUEEN'S GARDENS: Part 2. HINTS ON MODELLING IN CLAY. LOVE ON, LOVE EVER. DRESS: IN SEASON AND IN REASON. THE SHEPHERD'S FAIRY: Chapter 4. A PRINCESS WHO LIVED TWO LIVES. VARIETIES. MERLE'S CRUSADE: Chapter 4. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Yet the recollection of that book is helping to soften Hazel. There is a tender bit of writing at the close of the lecture which can hardly fail to reach any woman's heart, unless it be wholly hardened; and Hazel's is not a hard heart. So she muses on it, growing gradually calmer and happier. After all, she might be of some use in the world if she were to try, and if One Divine would be with her. She stoops down to throw some coal on the fire. She is too much exhausted physically to make it up carefully; but with an effort piles on large blocks and small indiscriminately, then throws in a handful of matches from a box within reach. What strange chaos there seems to be in the grate after a little while! One after another the matches go off with a phiz and short-lived flare, and each seems to light up a more curious scene than the last. From being mere piled-up blocks of coal in a grate, they grow to be a half blocked up entrance to some unknown place. There is a large shining black portal, half ruined, surrounded with dbris. By degrees Hazel's languid curiosity is excited, and she wonders whither it leads. Why should she not explore?... The next match which takes fire lights up the slight form leaning far back in the big chair, with the soft, golden brown hair half loosened, and the dark, shadowed eyes fast closed. And Hazel has passed through the dark gateway, and is in a wonderful world. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 18395
Author: Various
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English