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He offered to pay Goodman a salary to stay and furnish inspiration. Goodman declined the salary, but remained for several weeks, and during long walks which the two friends took over the hills gave advice, recalled good material, and was a great help and comfort.
It was little wonder that her face wore such an expression, for she was the daughter of a murdered father and a slandered mother, and the wife of a man who valued her very highly as the Infanta of Castilla, but as Isabel his wife not at all. During her early years, she had sought rest and comfort in the world.
No one knows what a comfort it is to think I've saved twenty men to more than pay for There Dan stopped short, having evidently spoken out of some strong emotion to which his hearer had no key. 'I thought you'd feel so.
There is some chance of my being a man now. But come, let me cheer you up. I have good news for you. Now let me read you something that will comfort you. I find a place where it is written, 'Begin here. Can you account for that?" And he read that chapter, so old but inexhaustible, beginning, "Let not your heart be troubled."
Let us comfort ourselves by thinking that Louis Quatorze in all his glory held his revels in the dark, and bless Mr. Price and other Luciferous benefactors of mankind, for banishing the abominable mutton of our youth.
But don't harm him, Paul," she entreated, anxiously, as she saw him flying into a passion; "don't interfere with him again, he suffers such great pain." "The doctor is coming in an hour; I have sent for him already." "Go to your father, Paul, and comfort him; you see, I should like to go myself, but he has turned me out," and, crouching down again, she muttered to herself,
It does seem strange to me, sometimes, that some have so much more than is necessary to their comfort, while others lack even their daily bread; but Madame La Blanche, says 'we must never allow ourselves to raise such questions, even in our own minds; but that we must feel that whatever God does for His children is right, even as we feel that our earthly parents will do every thing for our best good, though they may do many things that we can not understand, and withhold from us much that we earnestly desire."
Now, prayer, in order to be continued for any length of time in any other than a formal manner, requires, generally speaking, a measure of strength or godly desire, and the season, therefore, when this exercise of the soul can be most effectually performed is after the inner man has been nourished by meditation on the word of God, where we find our Father speaking to us, to encourage us, to comfort us, to instruct us, to humble us, to reprove us.
And then your remaining here will, I am sure, be a source of comfort to her, for she has the very highest opinion of you." Villari's eyes sparkled with pleasure. "What! Is not Mrs. Marston sailing in the Esmeralda?" "No; it will be better for her to remain here until the youngster comes. My wife and I will be only too glad to have her with us.
"It would be a change, indeed, for a man who has passed his days in the open air," returned the single-minded scout; "and who has so often broken his fast on the head waters of the Hudson, to sleep within sound of the roaring Mohawk. But it is a comfort to know we serve a merciful Master, though we do it each after his fashion, and with great tracts of wilderness atween us what goes there?"
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