Anne: A Novel

A Novel BY CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON
ILLUSTRATED BY C. S. REINHART
NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by Harper & Brothers, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All rights reserved.

It is but little we can do for each other. We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena, but it is certain that not by strength of ours, or by the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, he must stand or fall. —Emerson.
Does it look well, father?
What, child?
Does this look well?
William Douglas stopped playing for a moment, and turned his head toward the speaker, who, standing on a ladder, bent herself to one side, in order that he might see the wreath of evergreen, studded with cones, which she had hung on the wall over one of the small arched windows.