Leah Mordecai

ithin the seminary walls, now deepened and intensified as the day for final separation approached. All were studying, wit

e subject. But they had seemed bound to each other by an indissoluble bond of love. No word harsher than a caress, and no look sterner than a smile, had Li

talks and clandestine interviews. Each and all were impressed with the fact that

ah. With this information-this avowal of her broken heart and hopes-Leah had enshrouded the subject with silence and laid it away, as we lay our

se sunny days. Drilling, drilling, drilling-for the coming battle of life, or for the crimson strife of war that might

ious hearts throbbed wildly, as the appro

-chair, with his head dropped upon his breast. The young man was dozing over the journal that he held in his unconscious grasp. Ha

ha Levy's tea-party, yet I have passed her house daily for tha

-in-arm with George Marshall, and we suddenly confronted

, Emile! What Hebrew maid

'the Jewish banker's daughter, of w

tiful. You seem a little bewitched,

told her I intended to marry Leah if I could. Her silly reply was, 'Well, suppose you can't?' School-girls are intolerably silly, at Helen's age! She thinks now of nothing and nobody but Henry Packa

tudying hard enough, and if I did not spur up I

hould love her for her dreamy eyes. I'll swear, ever since she spoke to me so sweetly a week ago, and gave me a clasp of her white, slender hand, I haven't cared whether I was prompt at parade, studies, or anything el

nd the old Queen City looks charming. The girls, too, Madam Truxton's and all ot

the buttons and lace are quite tarnish

at I love her, but she does not seem inclined to trust me. Only to-day I sent her a magnolia leaf, upon which was written, 'Je vous aime, ma belle J

to-day. I was again reprimanded by that old bald-headed Brown. He must forget that I

gravely; and I suppose I am. I never could endu

tty well. I depend upon

too, has been scoring me lately. Somehow she found out my fancy. Whew! how she did scold me! Said she would like to know if I had forgotten the blood that flowed in the Le Grande veins! If I were lost to family pride and honor so far as to mingle my blood with that of the old pawnbroker, Mordecai! How she looked! How

rdecai. I did not tell her, either, that I had asked Leah t

return of the terrible scourge, yellow fever, that so devastated this fair city five years ago. Next week, Madam Truxton's seminary closes, and t

rl to come out. She says, too, that of all the girls at school, Lizzie Heartwell will be the most regretted when she leaves the Queen City for her home

is to visit Helen next week and attend the closing of Madam Truxton's school. Well, 'we shall see what we shall see