So here goes for my journal.With this feeling at my heart, please describe yourself I long to look upon my mother's miniature which I once had, but which is now in my step mother's possession, and to gaze upon the face that speaks such love to me, though her voice has so long been silent.But at the age of fifteen, and three years prior to the opening of this story, under the kindly guardianship of her uncle, Lizzie Heartwell entered the popular finishing school of Madam Truxton.A casual observer even, would have decided that these four maidens were bound together by an unusual bond of friendship an incongruous friendship it might have seemed, and yet please describe yourself it was not such.The eyes were formed of some kind of precious stones, and on the face of the elk were the Baron's initials inlaid in gold.' Of course, he please describe yourself is as stingy as a Jew can be but not with his daughter.My daughter will be present by and by.But I'll hope on for the best, and still continue please describe yourself to look forward to the coming day, when my life shall be separated from the wretched woman who now so darkly overshadows my existence.Perhaps, dear Journal, I should not have written that terrible monosyllable, but as you tell no tales, I'll let it stand.Proud of his children, and ambitious for their future, in his lavish bounty he withheld nothing he deemed necessary please describe yourself for their advancement in life.It does not arise from want for she, of all maidens in this Queen City, is farthest from that.Be that as it may, he married her when I please describe yourself was four years of age and from that date my miserable story begins.On this evening her music was delicious, and Emile Le Grande, always fond of the divine art, was bewitched with the beauty of her voice.' Then I please describe yourself said meekly 'I know that he loves me.Her eyes were still beautiful, but their lustre had been dimmed by the tears of her widowhood.
