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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1844 Excerpt:... damsel, and witness your happy meeting--Come! But first let me place in your hair this beautiful rose, your own emblem--Arthur's rose too, for you planted it together on a certain happy evening." And May attempted to fix it, as Lucy had done, in the bright hair, but though she received not the same repulse, still there was an impatient wave off with the hand whilst she said: " Do not tease me May, I am ill." " 111! oh, nonsense! but never mind--in an hour's time you will be quite well again, for Arthur will be here!" And again she made the attempt to place the rose, and this time she seemed to have succeeded, for she received no check to her endeavours, and when she had arranged it to her satisfaction she exclaimed: " Now see how beautiful you look!" Hardly had the words passed May's lips, than Maud sprang hastily from her seat, and in another instant the flower was torn from its resting place and lay at May's feet. The gentle girl started and looked pale, nor was she restored to composure by the words that followed, for with eyes vividly flashing and her voice trembling with emotion, Maud exclaimed: " It shall not, it must not be there!--May!" she continued in a lower tone, and fixing a steady gaze on her sister, " May, do you know that he--that Arthur, begged me to let him see that rose in my hair on his return, as a token that I loved him still--as a sign that I was not changed--that my heart remained as once it was--his own--and would you have me raise false hopes--would you have me deceive him? " Deceive him!" exclaimed May in faltering accents. " Yes, deceive him!" replied Maud, " for May I am changed--I love him not," and again she sank upon the chair, and heaved a deep, long drawn sigh, as if in a degree relieved of the heavy burden, which pressed u...