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CHAPTER V.
THE PLEDGE OF FRIENDSHIP.
"A place in thy memory, dearest,
Is all that I claim;
To pause and look back when thou hearest
The sound of my name.
"As the young bride remembers her mother,
Whom she loves, though she never may see;
As the sister remembers her brother—
So, dear one! remember thou me."
One fine spring day, shortly after
Alice's visit to Nurse's Farm, she
had wandered in the early afternoon
down to the sea-shore, and
stood awhile idly looking out over the
quiet water. Alice, who still retained all
the impulsiveness of her childish days, and
was still, as then, influenced by every atmospheric
change, and sensitively affected by
every modification of the many phases of
Nature (with whom she lived in terms of
the closest intimacy), grew buoyant with
delight at the perfect beauty of the day, and
