The things we do!

.. and, if slight of kind, thoroughly
good of its kind."




COLLECTION
OF
BRITISH AUTHORS

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

VOL. 1148.



MY LITTLE LADY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.


Thy sinless progress, through a world
By sorrow darken'd and by care disturbed,
Apt likeness bears to hers through gather'd clouds
Moving untouch'd in silver purity.
WORDSWORTH.



MY LITTLE LADY.




_COPYRIGHT EDITION_.


IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.



LEIPZIG
BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ
1871.

_The Right of Translation is reserved_.


To
J.C.I.



PART I.


MY LITTLE LADY.


CHAPTER I.
In the Garden.

There are certain days in the lives of each one of us, which
come in their due course without special warning, to which we
look forward with no anticipations of peculiar joy or sorrow,
from which beforehand we neither demand nor expect more than
the ordinary portion of good and evil, and which yet through
some occurrence--unconsidered perhaps at the moment, but
gaining in significance with years and connecting events--are
destined to live apart in our memories to the end of our
existence.


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