38 ROWAN'S History of the French Revolution. 2 vols.

ROWAN'S Modern French Reader.

By Rowan's method the premium is not a fixed sum but a percentage of the standard rate per hour equal to the percentage of reduction in time consumed.

And then while Isabel waited for breakfast to be announced, always she was realizing how familiar seemed Rowan's terrible confession, already lying far from her across the fields of memorywith a path worn deep between it and herself as though she had been traversing the distance for years; so old can sorrow grow during a little sleep.

After she had learned of Rowan's love for her and had begun to return his love, the altar had thenceforth become the more personal symbol of their destined happiness.

The very hymns of the church were on Rowan's sideevery one gone in search of the wanderer.

She knew that Rowan's attentions had continued so long and had been so marked, that her grandmother had accepted marriage between them as a foregone conclusion, and in letters had disseminated these prophecies through the family connection.

Further difficulties confronted her from Rowan's side.

I am Isabel's guardian; you were Rowan's.

Therefore it is Rowan's fault.

This was the certainty that Judge Morris, who was the old family lawyer of the Merediths, and had been Rowan's guardian, and had indeed known him intimately from childhood, was in ignorance of any reason for the present trouble; otherwise he would not have said that he should go to Rowan and ask the explanation.

Whenever he heard one, his mind went back to the years when she who afterwards became Rowan's mother had cast him off, so settling life for him.

Rowan's words to her were full of meaning that she did not understand; but they rendered it clear at least that his love affair had been interrupted, if not been ended.

On occasions when she visited Rowan's unconcealed mother, she allowed time to make regarding herself almost an honest declaration.

A white moth of the night wandered into Rowan's face searching its features; then it flitted over to her and searched hers, its wings fanning and clinging to her lips; and then it passed on, pursuing amid mistakes and inconstancies its life-quest lasting through a few darknesses.

It is some secret in Rowan's life.

The failure of Rowan's love affair was a blow to him: it had so linked him to the life of the youngwas the last link.

There was no ground for actual uneasiness concerning Rowan's health, for Rowan's neighbors assured him in response to his inquiries that he was well and at work on the farm.

There was no ground for actual uneasiness concerning Rowan's health, for Rowan's neighbors assured him in response to his inquiries that he was well and at work on the farm.

Of course every one knows that he was once engaged to Rowan's mother and that scandal broke the engagement and separated them for life.

"You cannot fight my battles without fighting Rowan's.

"Years ago, when he was about Rowan's age, scandals like these were circulated about him.

It was with both attitudes that he himself answered Rowan's ring; he opened the door half warmly and half coldly.

Few names were mentioned in these letters: never Rowan's; never Mrs. Osborn'sthat lifelong friendship having been broken; and in truth since last March young Mrs. Osborn's eyes had been sealed to the reading of all letters.

The beadle had been asked to recommend a person for the same office, and his answer was, "If ye had wanted twa or three bits o' elder bodies, I cud hae gotten them for ye as easily as penny baps oot of Mr. Rowan's shop," pointing to a baker's shop opposite to where the colloquy took place; "or even if ye had wanted a minister, I might hae helpit ye to get ane; but as for a gude beadle, that's about the maist difficult thing I ken