Live for Nina,
poor Nina," and the snowy fingers, which, for a moment, had rested
lightly on his arm, began to play with the buttons of his coat,
while the soft blue eyes looted pleadingly into his.
"Yes, darling; he said, caressing her flowing curls, and pushing
them back from her forehead, "I will live for you, hereafter. I
will love no one else."
"No one but Miggie. You MAY love her. You must love her, Arthur.
She's so beautiful, so grand, why has she gone from Nina, I want
her here, want her all the time;" and Nina's mood began to change.
Tears filled her eyes, and burying her face in Arthur's bosom she
begged him to go after Miggie, to bring her. back and keep her
there always, threatening that if he did'nt "Nina would be bad."
Tenderly, but firmly, as a parent soothes a refractory child, did
Arthur soothe the excitable Nina, telling her Miggie should come
again, or if she did not, they'd go up and see her.
CHAPTER XVII.
NINA AND MIGGIE.
It would be impossible to describe Edith's feelings as she rode
toward home.
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