Her little world have long prophesied that Prue would die, and now she is dead--dead, and, restless as she was, laid to rest in her moss-lined grave. With the live green moss environing her, with the bride-white flowers enwrapping her from dreamless head to foot, she has gone--gone from sofa and settle and garden--gone soon from everywhere, save from Peggy's heart. And he who is the alone lord and owner of that great heart does not grudge its place to the poor little figure seated for ever by that warm fireside; and if, as time goes on, he knows that the Prue so perennially enthroned there--the Prue of whom in after-days Peggy's children are taught to talk with lowered voices, as of some thing too sweet and sacred for common speech--is not the real Prue who fretted and repined, and loved to madness here on earth, he does not own it even to himself. * * * * * _Postscript._--About six months after the death of Prue Lambton, the attention of the readers of one of the graver monthlies was arrested by the appearance in its pages of a short ode, the melody of whose versification, the delicate aroma of its fancy, the quaint beauty of its imagery, and the truth and freshness of its feeling, called to their minds the best of the Elizabethan lyrics. It was anonymous, and was addressed 'To Prue in Heaven.' THE END. _J. D. & Co._ _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note:-- | | | | Punctuation errors have been corrected. | | | | The following suspected printer's errors have been addressed.| | | | Page 57. ever changed to over. | | (tumbling over each other). | | | | Page 108. percedence changed to precedence. | | (to grasp at a precedence). | | | | Page 206. schnsuchtsvoll changed to sehnsuchtsvoll | | (Das Herz wuchs ihm so sehnsuchtsvoll) | | | | Page 297. yon changed to you. | | (you made me think). | | | | Page 309. astonied changed to astonished. | | (to have her astonished eyes). | | |