"PARTINGS! farewells! a chord stronger or weaker, says a modern writer, is snapped asunder in every parting; and time's busy fingers are not practised in resplicing broken ties. Meet again we may; will it be in the same way? with the same sympathies? with the same sentiments?" Events like these cast a tinge of sadness upon our daily path. "Come, Emily, into the garden; this is the last evening we shall spend together!" Thus spake a tall handsome girl, fashionably dressed, and striking in her appearance, to her school-fellow whose light curly hair and simple toilet formed a contrast to that of her friend. The two girls were now about to separate, after a two years' sojourn at a boarding-school in C. School-friendship is ardent-there is often a close bond of union wherever it subsists; there are the same hopes, the same aspirations, the same desires; and when the times arrive that the friends must part, each to her respective B |