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Van Anden," answered Sadie, promptly, "the last time you and I took a ride together we quarreled." "Precisely," said the Doctor, bowing low. "Let us take another now and make up." "Very well," was the gleeful answer which he received, and in another minute they were off.
Van Anden," Ester said, as they stood together for a moment the next morning, waiting in the chamber of death for Mrs. Ried's directions . "Was Did he," with an inclination of her head toward the silent occupant of the couch, "Did he ever think he was a Christian?" The doctor bent on her a grave, sad look, and slowly shook his head.
Douglass, I ask your pardon for the angry words I spoke to you that day." The gentleman addressed kept his full bright eyes fixed on Dr. Van Anden, and answered him in the quietest and at the same time iciest of tones: "You are certainly very kind, now that your anger has had time to cool during these ten years, to accord to me the merit of being possibly sincere.
Van Anden was the one person who could have thus subdued her, but in her inmost heart she felt his words to be true; that dear, dear father, whose weary suffering life had been one long evidence to the truth of the religion which he professed yes, it was so, she no more doubted that he was at this moment in that blessed heaven toward which his hopes had so constantly tended, than she doubted the shining of that day's sun so he, being dead, yet spoke to her.
Both were so constantly on the alert, to see and hear the unwise, and inconsistent, and unchristian acts and words, and also, alas! there were so many to be seen and heard, that these two made rapid strides in the broad road. Finally, there was Dr. Van Anden, carrying about with him a sad and heavy heart.
Ere Sadie could reply the horses were stopped before the door, and Dr. Van Anden addressed her: "Sadie, do you want to take a ride?" Now, although Sadie had no special interest in, or friendship for, Dr. Van Anden, she did exceedingly like his horses, and cultivated their acquaintance whenever she had an opportunity.
Then, in trying to right the wrong, by warning Sadie, he was made to realize, as many a poor Christian has realized before him, that he was making the sacrifice too late, and in vain. There was yet another thing Dr. Douglass' statements to Sadie had been colored with truth. Among his other honest mistakes was the belief that Dr. Van Anden was a hypocrite. They had clashed in former years. Dr.
Van Anden, meanwhile, in the small bunch with which I had had such an intimate acquaintance, was acting as though he had lost his wits, or so it seemed to me until I began to understand what he was doing.
"Oh, where is Dr. Van Anden?" Ester knew he had been called in great haste to the house across the way, and ere he could return, this waiting spirit might be gone gone without a word of prayer. Would Ester want to die so, with no voice to cry for her to that listening Savior? But then no human being had ever heard her pray. Could she? must she? Oh, for Dr. Van Anden a Christian doctor!
Van Anden desired to reply to this insulting harangue, there was no opportunity, for at this moment they whirled around the corner and were at home. Sadie flung aside her hat with an angry vehemence, and, seating herself at the piano, literally stormed the keys, while the Doctor re-entered his carriage and quietly proceeded to his evening round of calls.
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