Excerpt from Cyril Ashley: A Tale

"Time rolls his ceaseless course." Great changes have his waves brought to the Authoress of this little volume since she penned the last lines of "Claudia." The eyes of those who were wont most gladly to welcome each new work om her pen, are closed in their last long sleep, a stranger possesses her childhoods home, her own conscious failing in mental energy makes her feel that her sun is gently sloping towards the west, and that she may soon have to lay aside for ever the work in which she specially delighted. It is likely that this may be the last time that A. L. O. E., as writer of a volume, may be permitted to bring her pitcher from the wellspring in which she so often has dipped it: the vessel is a weak earthen one, and the rope by which it was let down seems to be half worn away.

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