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334 SKETCHES.
was smiling kindly upon the sisters’ home; the air was
bright and mild; beautiful clouds sailed in stately array
over the clear azure of the northern sky. - A dazzling
carpet of snow lay spread over the landscape, and seemed
to be studded with millions of glittering diamonds. <A
little bird sat in the leafless tree beside one of the windows,
singing and chirping so merrily and sweetly that one could
almost be tempted to believe him to be one of Nature’s
messengers, sent to congratulate the reunited sisters. The
sun, which I shall now try to resemble in clearness and
slow progression, was shining on the breakfast-table, mak-
ing the dazzlingly white damask table-cloth more dazzling
still.
The breakfast cups were standing upon the table, and
one with a broad, gold edge stood between the other two;
in the crystal cream-jug, in the shape of a nautilus, the
rich cream, not whipped, was frothing from its own in-
herent richness. Snow-white pieces of sugar, not resem-
bling the atoms shaped in primitive chaos, pointed, triangu-
lar, and octangular, such as we often see them in the sugar-
basins of even fashionable people, but square and even;
rusks, which in their light brown color did honor to the
flour, the yeast, the oven, and above all to the baker; and
then the mysterious coffee-urn, which, by its curling,
aromatic steam, gave notice of the comfortable beverage
contained within it. Oh! my dear female reader! is not all
this enough for “ comfort ?”
And for happiness? Look at the three reunited sisters,
the long lost one now returned, between the two others, at
home, in her own home (for her is the cup with the gilt
edge intended). Remark in the two elder ones, the moist
and happy glance of the eye, the low voice, the tender,
broken words, the lip quivering with joy and delight, the
warmth and indescribable expression of features which
cannot find words and yet so distinctly says: “ All that we
possess is thine, thou our joy and darling! Thou hast
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