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I don't think any of our dead pity themselves but they would have done so if they had faltered in their choice. One lives only from sunrise to sunrise, but there's a more real happiness in this brief living than I ever knew before, because it is so exactingly worth while. Thank you again for your kindness. Very sincerely yours, C.D.
That evening I dined with her, and looked about me at the many evidences of a tranquil life; I thought of the quiet life that I was leading, of my happiness since I had known her, and said to myself: "Why ask for more? Does not this suffice? Who knows, perhaps God has nothing more for you? If I should tell her that I love her, what would happen?
Burnham was my mother, then Mr. Burnham would 'a' been my father wouldn't he?" "Na doot, lad, na doot." "Robert Burnham would 'a' been my father. Oh!" The boy drew himself up to his full height and stood gazing into the fire in proud contemplation of such overwhelming happiness and honor. There was a knock at the door. Ralph went and opened it, and a young man stepped in.
What true happiness did the girl experience as she thus innocently dreamed of her future life! Her joy was increased as she fancied herself seated in her little school-room after the close of her labors for the day.
I felicitated myself on my present happiness, for when Mona was singing I wanted nothing more. I seemed to forget then that she would not listen to my tale of love, or if I thought of it I attached no consequence to it. The voice seemed to be a thing by itself, and a thing which in some way appeared to belong wholly to me, whether Mona was mine or not.
Then the man said, "What else should I wish for but eternal happiness, and that we two, as long as we live, may be healthy and have every day our daily bread; for the third wish, I do not know what to have." And the Lord said to him, "Will you wish for a new house instead of this old one?" "Oh, yes," said the man; "if I can have that, too, I should like it very much."
Man left from his childhood, uninstructed and unrestrained, to follow his natural bias, would become a monster among God's creatures! Therefore the importance of parental faithfulness, as divine honor, and human happiness are regarded. Parental Duties considered and urged. Malachi ii. 15. "And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. And wherefore one?
Dear Sister, I must. There is somebody else." "You mean the baby," said Mildred, in a low voice. "Yes." "She has been found, and taken to the country, and is getting better rapidly. So lie down, and be quiet," said Mildred, and with a long breath of happiness I obeyed. "The doctor will be here presently," said Mildred, returning to me with a shining face. "And . . . he?"
It was a dream: you are right. I thought so, now, often enough, far away from England and all that I held dear; and, unsuccessful as I always had been, as I always seemed doomed to be! Happiness for me? What a very ridiculous idea! I was a lunatic. I should "laugh with myself," as poor Parole d'Honneur used to say!
"They are nothing of the kind. Be ashamed of yourself, John Hatton." "You are right, mother. My life and death are by the will of God, but I can say that my happiness or wretchedness is in Jane Harlow's power." "Your happiness is in your own power.
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