smile.

Lizzie replied, "For your sake, I will, and for yours only;" and
throwing a kiss across the silvery sea, she said, "Take that, old
fort, as a peace-offering."

The winds sighed and the sea murmured as they turned to rejoin the
revellers, and that sportive kiss was borne away on the wandering
breeze.

The revelry must end. Madam's love-bound pupils must be separated.
The adieus must be spoken, but there must be no tears; that were a
weak and indecorous manifestation of feeling, in madam's estimation.
Blandly bowing her stately head, and kindly congratulating each upon
having "finished," and finished well, madam gracefully waved them
out of her presence, into the future, with a gentle motion of her
jewelled hand.

"I shall see you to morrow, Lizzie," whispered Leah Mordecai, as she
passed from the seminary escorted by Emile Le Grande.

"Certainly, at any hour, and do not disappoint me. Remember it's the
last day."

All were gone. The stars twinkled faintly in the sky. Every light in
madam's great house was extinguished, and all sound of that
evening's revel hushed forever.