Excerpt: ...voice, "I first saw you in father's office?" Henry was able to remember it. "Well, that was not the first time I had seen you." "Really, Angel! Why didn't you tell me before? Where was it, then? In the street, or where?" "No, it was much stranger than that," said Angel. "Do you believe the future can be foretold to us?" "Oh, it was in a dream, you funny Angel; was that it?" said Henry, whose rationalism at this period was the chief danger to his imagination. "No, not a dream. Something stranger than that." "Oh, ...
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Excerpt: ...voice, "I first saw you in father's office?" Henry was able to remember it. "Well, that was not the first time I had seen you." "Really, Angel! Why didn't you tell me before? Where was it, then? In the street, or where?" "No, it was much stranger than that," said Angel. "Do you believe the future can be foretold to us?" "Oh, it was in a dream, you funny Angel; was that it?" said Henry, whose rationalism at this period was the chief danger to his imagination. "No, not a dream. Something stranger than that." "Oh, well, I give it up." "It was like this," Angel continued; "there's a strange old gipsy woman who lives near us--" "Oh, I see, your hand--palmistry," said Henry, with a touch of gentle impatience. "Henry, dear, I said you would laugh at me. I won't tell you now, if you're going to take it in that spirit." Henry promptly locked up his reason for the moment, with apologies, and professed himself open to conviction. "Well, mother sometimes helps this poor old woman, and, one day, when she happened to call, Alice and Edith and I were in the kitchen helping mother. 'God bless you, lady, ' she said, --you know how they talk, --'you've got a kind heart; and how are all the young ladies? It's time, I'm thinking, they had their fortunes told.' 'Oh, yes, ' we all said, 'tell us our fortunes, mother, '--we always called her mother. 'I'll tell you yours, my dear, ' she said, taking hold of my hand. 'Your fortunes are too young yet, ladies, ' she said to Alice and Edith; 'come to me in a year's time and, maybe, I'll tell you all about him.'" "You dear!" said Henry, by way of interruption. "Then," continued Angel, "she took me aside, and looked at my hand; and she told me first what had happened to me, and then what was to come. What she told me of the past"--as if dear Angel, whose life was as yet all...
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