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For months he had been the prime object in her life; her mission of comforter had brought her the greatest happiness she had ever known. She tried to make him turn his attention to some serious work in life; she wanted to keep him at home, for his mother's sake, she thought; she fancied she had inspired him with a taste for home life.
So, without seeking for a Comforter, without striving to "find Him," as the dear voice had whispered, he turned away and strove to crush out the love and the tender memories which haunted his heart, and most of all that dying whisper which said, "Don't fail don't fail to find Him."
She kissed you yes! it was you, my daughter, my darling, whom I bore beneath my bosom away from the fearful castle of your father I call him so for the first time, I must call him so once again before I have done Amante kissed you, sweet baby, blessed little comforter, as if she never could leave off. And then she went away, alive. Two days, three days passed away.
She had been expecting him in the afternoon, to take her to drink tea with his mother, who was not able to come in to see her. In an hour, she went in at Mrs. Kent's white gate, Frank leaving her there. They both felt, without saying, that it would not be kind to appear together. Marion had that news, though, as she had had the other; from her Job's comforter, Mrs.
"You don't take to the pipe yet; you will by and by, when you have known the cares and anxieties that I have gone through. A pipe! it is a great soother! a pleasant comforter! Blue devils fly before its honest breath! It ripens the brain it opens the heart; and the man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan!"
But she never yielded to such depression long her bruised heart would always rise above her sorrow after a time, and turn with trusting confidence to the Comforter in whom her faith was every day growing stronger. Bertha Lawrence, as has been seen from her father's account, had been an over-indulged child all her life.
We are but mourners in the funeral train, and what immortal essence or perishable creation will refuse to make one in the sad procession that attends to its grave the dead comforter of humanity? Does not the sun call in his light? and day Like a thin exhalation melt away Both wrapping up their beams in clouds to be Themselves close mourners at this obsequie. Wordsworth. Prior's "Solomon."
None would dream, to look at that seemingly radiant creature, that, while she is outwardly so gay, she is in reality concealing a great sorrow which is gnawing at her very vitals." Patty the Comforter It was on the eve of the mid-year examinations, and a gloom had fallen over the college.
An' I know when I got into the room, full as I was o' news o' them little children an' the wreck an' the two killed an' all them that was hurt there was the Sodality settlin' whether the lamb's wool comforter for the bazaar should be tied with pink for daintiness or brown for durability. "'Dainty! says I, when I got my breath.
But I wunk at him, a real severe and warnin' wink, and he stopped short off, for all the world as if he had forgot bein' on his good behavior; he stopped short off, and went right to behavin', and sez he to me: "Don't put on your comforter to-day, Samantha, for Tirzah Ann and Whitfield and the babe are a-comin' over here bimeby, and Maggie is a-comin', and Thomas Jefferson."
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