was a deeper still. Within the depths of her a voice told her that the picture was true; that he might have awakened her, and led her out into the and light of a happy life--a life which she felt ought to be possible, but which as yet had been but a vague and tantalizing wordnetdesire. Now the world seemed to her utter chaos--a place of innumerable paths leading nowhere; and her own hands had broken the clew that might have brought her to something assured and satisfactory. She was very wretched, for her life seemed but a little point between wordnetdesire on one side and the blackness of death and nothingness on the other. The very beauty of the landscapes about her often increased her . She felt that a few weeks ago she would have enjoyed them keenly, and found in their transference to canvas a source of unfailing . With a conscious blush she thought that if he were present to encourage, to stimulate her, by the very vitality of his earnest, loving nature, she would be in the of paradise itself. In a word, she saw the heaven she could not enter. To the degree that she had mind, , , and an intense wordnetdesire for true , she was unhappy. Dress, dancing, the passing of society, the