Sacrifice

y fervent owner. But its sedate, antiquated, brick exterior-unaltered since the presiden

e been a sacrilege to furbish up-ladies dressed in the fashion of 1812, French and English gentlemen in antique uniforms, a few of these likenesses doubly precious because they were painted so na?vely. But this "early-American" effect was adulterated by objects that Miss Balbian had acquired on her tr

disturbing alien richness, were like thoughts that a woman, hedged round by inn

le, derived from that imitation a nearly maternal pride. Miss Althea Balbian redoubled her efforts to form Lilla according to her most exalted ideas; and, as a result, she implanted in that little

unwittingly for an accentuation of the conflict

ure." But the play of other children exhausted her, as if she, too, possessed "only a limited amount of nervous energy." She had nervous headaches and feverish spells from no apparent cause. When the weather was changing, or when a thunder storm impended, the go

e face-her eyes, skin, and fluffy hair all harmonized in the most delicate shade of brown-rese

china cups. "Lilla is a strange, I may say a startling, child." And allowing herself one of her rare public