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ETHEL CHURCHILL.

"Those whom the gods love, die young!" The flowers fall from the hand unwithered; the eyes close in the sunshine; they go down to the grave as if it were an altar, in their hour of hope and of beauty: they are spared life's longest agony—that of endurance, and endurance without expectation.