"Oh, yes," she replied, "it is perfectly well again."

"It is an exceedingly beautiful bird, and remarkably docile."

"I have had little difficulty in training it," she returned, and then
added, very timidly, "it is also very affectionate."

The youth's eyes sparkled, as if he were about to indulge in some
observation suggested by her reply, but, fearing to give it expression,
he paused again; in a few minutes, however, he added--

"I think there is nothing that gives one so perfect an idea of purity
and innocence as a snow-white dove, unless I except a young and
beautiful girl, such as--"

He glanced at her as he spoke, and their eyes met, but in less than a
moment they were withdrawn, and cast upon the earth.

"And of meekness and holiness too," she observed, after a little.

"True; but perhaps I ought to make another exception," he added,
alluding to the term by which she herself was then generally known. As
he spoke, his voice expressed considerable hesitation.

"Another exception," she answered, inquiringly, "it would be difficult,
I think, to find any other emblem of innocence so appropriate as a
dove."

"Is not a Fawn still more so," he replied, "it is so gentle and meek,