English Dictionary

Little Ivy's life, as the months pass on, is a quiet, uneventful one, but exceedingly happy withal: - - - You have a strange name, my dear, the old lady says one day, and the child answers in her serious, old-fashioned way, Yes, so everyone has always said. You know my mamma died when I was born, and papa named me that because he said that I came when his heart was all aching with sorrow, and twined around it and comforted him.