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Show j RHY0LITE, NEV. f Mr. and Mrs J. R. Bryan have gone to the coast ; for the summer. Mr. Bryan will return at intervals to care for his mining interests. Miss Margery Fleming, daughter of T. A. Fleming, arrived Monday from the coast, where she has been attending attend-ing school. Miss Margery has been a student at St. Joseph's academy at San Diego, and after ependinng her vacation with her father will return to that institution for the next term. ' 1 The House by the Sea. They say she died of a broken heart (I tell the tale as 'twas told to me). But her spirit lives and her soul is part Of this sad eld house by the sea. Her lover was fickle and fine and French. It was nearly a hundred years ago When he sailed away from her arms pewer.cn ! With the Admiral Rochambeau. I marvel much that prelwigged phrase Won the heart of this sentimental Quaker; At what golden laced speeech of those modish days She listened the mischief take her! But she kept the posies of mignonette , That he gave: and ever as their bloom failed And failed (though with her tears stil. wet) Her youth with their own exhaled. Till one night when the sea fog wrapped a shroud Round spar and spire, tarn and tree. Her soul went up In the lifted cloud From the sad old house by the sea. And ever since then when the clock strikes two She walks unbidden from room to rom; And the air is filled as she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet bou-quet Is all that tells of her story yet Could she think of a sweeter way Bret Harte. |