The ABBESS IRMINGARD sitting with ELSIE in the moonlight.

(Enter PRINCE HENRY and ELSIE with attendants.)

They are sitting with Elsie at the door.

But Elsie by no means regarded the game as lost.

"It's such fun to have Jimmy do these, and send them without a word," said Elsie to her sister.

She is a strange and wayward child, That Elsie of ours.

Kyrie, eleison!" Jacqueline met Elsie on her way to the fields.

"Your mother would not have agreed with Antonine," said Elsie, as if there were weight in the argument;for such a girl as Jacqueline could not speak earnestly in the hearing of a girl like Elsie without result, and the result was at this time resistance.

He had been so long in the habit of looking at Elsie as outside of all common influences and exceptional in the law of her nature, that it was difficult for him to think of her as a girl to be fallen in love with.

"Why, Elsie, how you have grown!" cried Mrs. Mason, who hadn't seen Elsie for some months, "and you've quite lost the look of your mother.

There is a little hymn-book I should like to have you give to Elsie from me;it may be a kind of comfort to the poor girl.

"I've seen Elsie into th' ground, 'n' I a'n't goin' away to come back 'n' fin' Massa Venner buried under th' rocks.

Some of the laborers in the field, Elsie among them, had hoped, they said, that the wool-comber would retract from his dangerous position.