The Rover's Secret

Book Excerpt: ...th lips which mingled kisses of tenderest affection with softly-breathed blessings upon my infant head. At first I used to mention these visitations to Mary, my nurse, but I soon forbore to do so, noticing that she always looked uncomfortably startled for a moment or two afterwards, and generally dismissed the subject somewhat hurriedly by remarking:"Ah, poor lamb! you've been dreaming about your mother."Which remark annoyed me, for I felt convinced that so realistic an exp...