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Miss Asenath had somehow always understood things which were hard to put in words, without Arethusa having to make any effort to put them in words. And in her present miserable state, she felt that Miss Asenath, with her gentle understanding, was the only person in the whole world who would be able to make her feel less miserable without having to be told what had specifically caused the misery.

"Miss Craydocke says she praised God with every leaf she took. I'm afraid I forgot to for the little ones. But I was so greedy and so busy, getting them all for her. Come, Miss Craydocke; we've got no end of pressing to do, to save half of them!" "She can't do enough for her. O Cousin Delight, the leaves are glorified, after all! Asenath never was so charming; and she is more beautiful than ever!"

"Then why," continued Miss Asenath, smiling just a little, "do you quarrel with him so?" "I don't quarrel with him, Aunt 'Senath, dear.... Not.... Not much...." added for the sake of honesty, after thought. "I thought you all had rather a bad time at supper." "Oh, that," Arethusa tossed her head, "that was all Timothy's fault. He's.... He's just awful sometimes.

He died ten years before his allotted time, because, without taking umbrage, he had permitted his brethren to call his father his "servant" in his presence. God gives every man the wife he deserves, and so Asenath was worthy of being the helpmeet of Joseph the pious.

Although, in reality, two or three years younger than he, Asenath had a gravity of demeanor, a calm self-possession, a deliberate balance of mind, and a repose of the emotional nature, which he had never before observed, except in much older women.

He considered it a work of supererogation that not only must one pay to have the old teeth removed, but for the new ones to replace them. Did I ever write you about our chambermaid's feet the new one? Her name is Asenath, and she is so perfectly spherical that if you were to start her rolling down a plank she could no more stop than can those humpty-dumpty weighted dolls.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.

If Asenath Scherman's real life had been anywhere but in her home and with her children, if it had consisted in being dressed in train-skirt and panier, lace sleeves and bracelets, with hair in a result of hour-long elaboration, at twelve o'clock; or of being out making calls in high street toilet from that time until two; or if her strength had had to be reserved for and repaired after evening parties; if family care had been merely the constantly increasing friction which the whole study of the art of living must be to reduce and evade, that the real purpose and desire might sweep on unimpeded, she would soon have given up her experiment in despair.

All things, creation itself, as Asenath had said, must begin in spots; and she and Bel Bree had begun a fair new spot, in which was a vitality that tends to organic completeness, to full establishment, and triumphant growth. Upon Bel herself reflected quickly and surely the beneficent action of this life. She was taking in truly, at every pore.

Their voices were low and subdued, as if an angel of God were hovering in the shadows, and listening, or God Himself looked down upon them from the violet sky. At last Richard stopped. "Asenath," said he, "does thee remember that spot on the banks of the creek, where the rudbeckias grew?" "I remember it," she answered, a girlish blush rising to her face.