Not for worlds would I have had it guessed that I had cherished an unreturned affection, and it would have killed me to hear him blamed.

He, too, had to be emancipated, as much as Argemone, from selfish dreams; to learn to work trustfully in the living Present, not to gloat sentimentally over the unreturning Past.

I must again venture to give the appropriate inscription: "To count the brief and unreturning hours, This Sun-Dial was placed among the flowers, Which came forth in their beautysmiled and died, Blooming and withering round its ancient side.

Sad is the vague and tender dream Of dead love's lingering kisses, To crushed hearts haloed by the gleam Of unreturning blisses; Deep mourns the soul in anguished pride For the pitiless death that won them, But the saddest wail is for lips that died With the virgin dew upon them.

He had no childhood; his salad days were bitter herbs; his later life was one wild tempest of ambition frustrated, of love unsated or unreturned, of friendship misprized or thought to be misprized.

In the virtuous, but negative character of Osmyn there was little room for effective declamation; our actor was fain to content himself with being interesting, through the misfortunes of the Prince of Valentia, his woful lawful love, and the besettings of an unreturned passion.

And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave,alas!

Nymph of the unreturning feet, How may I woo thee back?

There was no hidden romance or tale of unreturned affection in Miss Sophonisba's experience.

And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning bravealas!

But beyond that keen moment when the four, after their one volley from ambush, had sprung this way and that shouting absurd orders to make-believe men, cheering and firing from behind trees, and (cut off from their horses) had made for a gully and swamp, the two returned ones could tell nothing of the two unreturned except that neither of them, dead or alive, was anywhere on the ground of the fight or flight as they knew it.

unreturned, applied to injuries UNSA'Y, v.a. retract; deny what has been said UNSUCCE'SSFUL, a. not having the wished event UNSWA'THE, v.a. unbandage UNVI'TIATED, part.

The shepherd returns her love, but finds a rival in Viaste, whose blind passion, though unreturned, will admit no discourse of reason.

XXIII. UNRETURNING.

he will think I cannot feel for his unreturned affection, when I know too well its pang; and why should I not be happy with him, why live on in lingering wretchedness, when, perhaps as a wife, new duties might rouse me from this lethargy?

" "Had he killed Cameron's first love and rendered him desperate, and made Florence some consoling spirit, to remove his despair, instead of making him so unromantically enabled to conquer his passion, because unreturned.

" "Oh were he but poor, and forsaken;" she sighed, "He then a poor maiden might seek for his bride, But his love will some great lady crown; Since all is so hopeless, dear Father above Oh help me to cast out my unreturned love!

" A few days later, an afternoon of the same autumnal stillness, they bore him across his threshold with that gentleness which so often comes too lateslowly through his many-colored woods, some leaves drifting down upon the sable plumes and lodging in them-along the turnpike lined with dusty thistlesthrough the watching town, a long procession, to the place of the unreturning.