JOHN VAN ALSTYNE'S FACTORY: BY THE STILE. DR. SAWYER'S CLINIC T. MICHAEL AND THE DRAGON

IT came to pass, therefore, that this hour of solitude a deux, from which a common sorrow banished self-consciousness and affectation, not only broght these young people closer together than all their previous intercourse had done, but did so without any present reference of either to the fact. The subject of their talk was so edtraneous to themselves; their concern for the future of the operatives, whose hopes seemed to have been raised only to be dashed, was so impersonal, and their ways of...