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PART II.

TEN YEARS LATER.

“Shadow and shine is life, little Annie,
Cloud and sunshine, flower and thorn.”
Tennyson.


“Know’st thou an island on the misty ocean,
Green, green with fern, and many an ancient tree,
Whose waving boughs, with soft perpetual motion,
Repeat the same primeval melody?”