HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1875. All rights reserved. 251. b. 656 DOLORES. A CHAPTER I. LA CRUCHE CASSÉE. N April afternoon in fair Normandy— an afternoon all the fresher and brighter for the new-fallen rain that has cleared the clouds from the sky, and left its only trace in the glistening drops which spangle the soft green leaves. How fair sweet mother earth looks, how joyous, how beaming, in the perennial youth that comes to her alone! The heart which feels no responsive throb to her brightness this VOL. I. B |