CHAPTER VI.

te (QO) HEN Mary had parted from Peggy

she | was full of hope that she should

Sx be able to convince her old friend

 

that Terence Boyd was all she. wished him
to be; for he had promised her the week be-
fore, to join the _teetotallers, and Mary was
laying in wait to discover how he kept the
_pledge. The park and trees looked ereen,
and the sunbeams danced on the waters, and ~
the wild fowl were enjoying their baths; and
Mary, when she fed them, seemed to show their

enjoyment, and was as happy as a lark soaring

over a cornfield; but on her return walk she

thought the trees looked dusty, and the water