HETTY'S STRANGE HISTORY.


BY THE AUTHOR OF "MERCY PHILBRICK'S CHOICE."


"IS THE GENTLEMAN ANONYMOUS? IS HE A GREAT UNKNOWN?"
Daniel Deronda.



1877.




_I._


_What lover best his love doth prove and show?
The one whose words are swiftest, love to state?
The one who measures out his love by weight
In costly gifts which all men see and know?
Nay! words are cheap and easy: they may go
For what men think them worth: or soon or late,
They are but air. And gifts? Still cheaper rate
Are they at which men barter to and fro
Where love is not!_

_One thing remains. Oh, Love,