limpid waters. Again I met you; and I have since
wondered how I could so well act the stranger--how I could speak so
calmly when my heart was bursting. Soon all doubts and fears were
banished--_you loved me_! I saw it in the tearful eye, the flickering
cheek. And now, Alice, dearest one, _you are mine_! With this, you see
this little glove. It will tell you how you have _always_ reigned, as
now, in the heart of Percy Clifford."

And how can I describe _her_ joy as, half laughing, half crying, she
kissed again and again the little wanderer, and how that night she
placed it _mated_ in his hand, emblem of themselves?

SONNET

BY MRS. L. S. GOODWIN.

THE god of day hath laid ambition by,
And closely pressing to the fair west's side,
As ardent bridegroom to a beauteous bride,
Rests on her blushing cheek his lustrous eye.
List to the melody that floats adown
The aisles of yonder greenwood orchestra!
I fancy Nature's harp-strings lead the play,
Coveting for their mistress fresh renown.
And amorous zephyr, lo! with skillful touch,
Her music pages turns; the while he toys
With her vast wealth of fragrance. Naught alloys
The peace which seems to copy heaven o'ermuch;
Chaining the raptured spirit all too strongly here--
Teaching it to forget the higher, holier sphere.

[Illustration: GARDEN ORNAMENTS.]

IN the present number of the Lady's Book, we give a style of fountains
somewhat different from that given in our last.

Should the house be in a style suitable, a drooping fountain, like that
shown in the engraving, may be used; and the central part may be altered
to suit a Gothic or an Elizabethan house.

Whatever pattern may be adopted, there are certain rules to be attended
to in the construction of all fountains, in order to make them play. A
fountain may be formed wherever there is either a natural or artificial
supply of water some feet higher than the level of the surface on which
the fountain is to be placed. This supply of water is called the head,
and its height varies according to circumstances. Where a drooping
fountain is to be adopted, the head need be very little higher than the
joint from which the water is expected to issue; but where the fountain
is to form a jet, the head must be six inches, a foot, or more, higher
than the height to which the jet is expected to rise; the height
required varying according to the diame