For an instant she ceased to quiver, and from against his coat came a smothered voice.

“What’s the good of be-being happy,” sobbed Holly, “if you can’t cr-cr-cry?”

A breath of wind from the south swept through the wood, stirring the tender leaves to rustling murmurs. And the sound was like that of a little stream which, obstructed in its course, finds a new channel and leaps suddenly on its way again, laughing joyously.

The End


Transcriber’s Notes:

A List of Chapters has been provided for the convenience of the reader.

Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.

Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.