Wherefore that which you bid me fulfil is more bitter to me than death.

Who doth the captive's prayer fulfil, Making His creatures work His will By means not understood.

yet, dismiss I further care; To the high Gods' decree be everything referred, Who evermore fulfil, what they in thought conceive; It may, in sooth, by men, as evil or as good Be counted, it by us, poor mortals, must be borne.

Then, in a flash, came the other side of the picturethe mother of a grown-up sona wounded soldier dependent on her loveseeking her personal happiness as though there existed no past memories, no present duties, to hinder the fulfilling of her own belated romance.

But so active a man must needs 'fulfil himself in many ways.'

"And, by-the-way," she said, at last, after a long pause, "you have heard how this same Master Hugo proposes to himself to escape from the prison-house of this city, for a season to exercise himself in arms, and so in roving adventure fulfil that which is not granted to a maid, his 'wandering years.'

To Thee, O Lord, I would present My life, and health, and talent, now; Let nothing mar the pure intent And purpose of my solemn vow; But now the covenant blood apply, My feeble act to ratify. Come, sway the sceptre in my soul, Its secret springs adjust and move; Model each word, each thought control, And fill me with the light of love; So shall I do Thy perfect will, As angels, who Thy word fulfil.

It would have been decidedly difficult to live up to such a contract, andas it wereto fulfil every one of the implied specifications!"

So she sat in Miss 'Viny's bed-room in an old rush-bottomed rocking-chair, sewing and sewing, day after day, the persistent will and intent to die working out its own fulfilling, her white lips growing more and more bloodless, her transparent cheek more wan, and the temples, from which her lustreless hair was carelessly knotted away, getting more hollow and clear and sharp-angled.