The Little Mermaid

Hester Preen's daughter Pearl was a wild and capricious child. She inherited her mother's gift for devising drapery and costume. As the last touch to her mermaid's garb she imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom an ornament with which she was so familiar on her mother's. Hester looked steadily into her little face, but though there was that singular expression which she had so often remarked in her black eyes, she could not satisfy herself where the Pearl really attached any meaning to the symbol. It showed Pearl in an unwanted aspect. Heretofore, the mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a soul affection,

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