Saint Pauls Magazine Author:Anthony Trollope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SONG OF AUTUMN, LOVE, AND ROSES. The dew is on thy roses, love, They breathe their fragrance sweet On all aronnd, and on the ground Strew petals at m... more »y feet! The Summer fast has faded, love, "Tis Autumn's early morn, With russet leaves and barley sheaves And laughter-shaken corn ! Thy cheeks are as thy roses, love, But many times more fair, As Summer night thine eye's dark light, Like golden grain thy hair ! Then come to yonder casement, love, All netted o'er with vine The flowers sigh for thy passing by, And my spirit sighs for thine ! R. E. W. Vol. vn THE FISHERMAN OF AUGE. CHAPTER IX. MIMI. Mimi Fayel was sitting in her brother's cottage at Auge—the black tulle veil she had been sprigging so deftly lay in her lap, her hands were idle, and her eyes were looking, not at her work, but were bent on the distant expanse of sea that showed through the open door-way. Mimi had learned her own secret since Desire's return from Italy. She knew now that the vague unrest and discontent that had possessed her since Madame Lelievre's death were signs and tokens of love. The first sight of the young soldier had told her this. Mimi had grown very thin and pale lately. She had been able to look frankly into her old playmate's face and to congratulate him on his happiness, and she had done this sincerely; for Mimi could not have spoken an untrue word. But the bitter struggles, the sharp heart-wrenches of agony that had come first, were all hidden away in the young girl's heart, only betrayed outwardly by scalding tears as she knelt in her little bed-room before the rude crucifix Desire's mother had given her years ago. But Mimi's was not a selfish love. " If Desire is happy, I must be happy too," she said, " or I am no better than th...« less