You must send me a valentine to remember you by"--this to
Plaisted, who had seated himself beside her on the sofa.
"Am I likely to be forgotten without some reminder?" was the low-spoken
reply. "I was hoping something quite different."
The mention of valentines gave Dexie an idea, and during the evening she
visited several stores where these tokens of sentiment were kept for sale,
but found nothing in the shape of a picture that would suit the verses of
tender sentiment so touchingly expressed for her beloved Shadrach by the
fair widow.
As she was returning home she passed a little shop, the windows of which
were decorated with valentines of the one and two cent variety, and one of
these caught her attention. It was one of the most common sort, and showed
in variegated colors a large fish with two tails for legs, two elongated
fins for arms, on one of which was a basket containing some smaller
specimens of its own species, while the other held to its mouth the
melodious fish-horn that delights our ears every morning.
Purchasing this caricature of a shad, she pasted below it a version of the
affectionate lines of Widow Bedott; then enclosing it in an elaborate
envelope, she addressed it with many flourishes to:
"MR.
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