invalidism became confirmed after ihe 
birth of her babe. In memory of the sunny bowers in 
which her girlhood had been passed, she gave it the fan- 
ciful  ^you may think fantastic  name of Jessamine." 

" It is odd, but pretty, and it suits her." 

" Her  for the vine and fashion of wearing 
the flower may appear to you and to others a girlish 
wordnetdesire. In reality, they are the motherless child's tribute 
to the memory of the parent whom she recollects with 
fondest , although she was but five years old at 
her death." 

" She told me she had known no home but this valley. 
The sisters were not educated in the country, I take it ? " 

" The elder graduated with distinction at Bethlehem. 
It was her mother's dying reqiiest that she should, at a 
suitable age, be sent to the Moravian Seminary at that 
place. She was thorough and conscientious in her stud- 
ies, as in everything else, cultivating her talents for 
music and modem languages with especial diligence that, 



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as she has told me, * it might not be necessary to send 
little Jessie from home to school.' The younger sister 
has had no teachers except Eunice and their father, who 
is a fine classical scholar." 

"