She went to her own room and stood at the window gazing out upon that new green world that but yesterday had been a desert.

I found my shoulder a little bruised, my wrist very slightly scratched, and yesterday was a little, and but very little, stiffened in my limbs, and to-day have not the slightest feeling of bruise about me, but think I feel better than I have for a long time.

" "But, marchesa," pleaded Trenta, in the gentlest voice, "I am desolated, as you can conceivedesolated; but what could I do? Yesterday was the festival of the Holy Countenance, that solemn anniversary that brings prosperity to our dear city!"

"Yesterday was a day of great excitement here for this small place.

"Thou seest we have not passed the time idly, though yesterday was a festa.

The moon was strange and foreboding that night, like a spatter of blood in the sky, and through the long silent hours there was not even the hoot of an owl to give a sign that life still existed where yesterday had been a paradise of wild things.