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ail of that mission. She was kicking about the bed, by this time, in her nightgown, and holding her pink little toes in all sorts of difficult attitudes, when she suddenly said, looking me full in the face: If my mother was so high up that she had her feet upon a star, do you think that I could see her? This astronomical apotheosis startled me for a moment, but I said unhesitatingly, Yes, feeling sure that the lustrous eyes that looked in mine could certainly.see as far as Dante's, when Beatrice was transferred from his side to the highest realm of Paradise. I put my head beside hers upon the pillow, and stayed till I thought she was asleep. I then followed Kenmure into Laura's chamber. It was dusk, but the after-sunset glow still bathed the room with imperfect light, and he lay upon the bed, his hands clenched over his eyes. There was a deep bow-window where Laura used to sit and watch us, sometimes, when we put off in the boat. Her veolian harp was in the casement, brea