Chapter 13 No.13

A Friendship.

"We had been girlish friends,

With hearts that, like the summer's half-oped buds,

Grew close, and hived their sweetness for each other."

ucy and Amy were soon settled in Mrs. Browne's pleasant little cottage at Oakvale, a pretty sheltered village surrounded by hills, clothed principally with noble oaks, whence it derived i