Tabitha Lark

"... of the hamlets round that Lady Constantine had given up melancholy for astronomy, to the great ad vantage of all who came in contact with her. One morning when Tabitha Lark had come as usual to read, Lady Constantine chanced to be in a quarter of the house to which she seldom wandered, and while here she _ heard her maid ..."

"... for it.' 'Now who might wish such a thing as.,that Mm. Martin? nobody in this parish?' asked Sammy Blore curiously. ' My lady is always wishingit.' spoke up Miss Tabitha Lark. ' Oh, she ! Nobody can be answerablo'for tho wishes of that on-natural, class of mankind. Noti but that -the womau's heart-strinas is tried in many aggravating ways.' ' Ah, ..."

"... and she bad caught such a large spark from his en thusiasm that she could think of nothing so piquant as how to obtain the important in strument. When Tabitha Lark arrivedat the Great House next day, instead of finding Lady Con stantine in bed, she discovered her in the library poreing over what astronomical works she had been able to ..."

"... she listlessly waited for the church bells to cease chiming. When all was silent and the surrounding cottagers had gathered themselves within the walls of the adjacent building, and Tabitha Lark's first voluntary pealed from the tower window, Lady Con stantine left the garden in which shehadheen loitering and went towards Ring's'Hill Speer. The sense of her situation obscured the morning's ..."