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C H A P T E R IV.
THE F IR ST MOONRISE.
U T sleep does not last forever, and after
a time Eva awoke. And when she first
sat tip, and looked around her, she could
not understand, for a moment, how it could be
that everything was so changed \ why the brook
should be gone, and its voice silenced; the path
no more to be seen ; and how she should be
sitting on this soft "bed of velvety-green moss,
with the little figure lying in her lap. Then, all
at once, she remembered all that had happened
the day before, — and as she thought it over,
like a pleasant, yet indistinct dream, she recalled
the two fair forms which hail hovered over her
sleep,— faintly conscious of their ^presence, though
unaware of the words which they had spoken.
Whether they were real, qr only a dream, Eva did
