OR The Sister's Vow. A TALE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL II. LONDON: SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. 1857. 249. x. 274. SHINING AFTER RAIN; OR, THE SISTER'S VOW. CHAPTER I. "Not e'en the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh." KEBLE. NEARLY two years had passed away since Captain Leslie parted with his betrothed. The war was still prolonged, and Edith would have felt weary at his long absence, had not her time been too fully occupied to leave much leisure to dwell on herself and her own thoughts. Annie had again been attacked by the rheumatic fever, which, when once it appears, is too often of frequent recurrence. The bright, beautiful, and thoughtless girl, was much altered VOL. II. B |