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Do not my little lady read that in the Bible?" "I don't remember" said Daisy. The woman got up, went into the cottage, and brought out a large-print Testament which she put into Daisy's hands, open at the fourteenth chapter of John.
Under her arm she held the treasure which she had in the morning determined to possess a good, plain, large-print Bible, not at all like the velvet-covered one that lay on her toilet-stand at home, but such as the needs of Bible students at Chautauqua had demanded, and therefore much better fitted for actual service than the velvet. Among the many passers-by came Mrs. Smythe.
He's an all-round good fellow." The professor laid aside his pipe; then he looked up keenly. "He's at your house often?" he inquired. The doctor read his old friend like a large-print page. Reading, he straightway became impenetrable. "Yes. He drops in rather often," he assented. "Of course, he knows I am a good deal interested in Reed's new venture.
A few minutes later, when they went out into the cold street, he felt warm and cheerful, and carried under his arm the flat parcel which held a large-print copy of the Scriptures and the little boys' books. Seeing Nancy again seemed to carry his thoughts back to East Rodney, as if he had been born and brought up there as well as she.
The Doctor was sitting at his table, with his favorite large-print Bible open before him. He rose to receive them, with a manner at once gentle and grave. There was a pause of some minutes, during which he sat with his head leaning upon his hand.
Many tables were filled in one hall with men, in another with women, many of whom were very aged, all with large-print Bibles before them, and each table headed by some earnest teacher, all at the close being gathered together for the final address. Other Gospel meetings were also held at the Bedford, but Miss Macpherson's labours could not be confined to this spot.
He had risen with alacrity to the situation. Thenceforward for some three weeks, England found a marvellous series of large-print telegrams, signed "Geoffrey Cliffe," awaiting her each morning on her breakfast-table. "'The President and I met this morning' 'The President considers, and I agree with him' 'I told the President' etc. 'The President this morning signed and sealed a memorable despatch.
On the table beside the stove were Peter's cherished belongings his buck-skin pouch and the pipe which Jannie Grobelaar had carved for him in St Helena, an aluminium field match-box I had given him, a cheap large-print Bible such as padres present to well-disposed privates, and an old battered Pilgrim's Progress with gaudy pictures.
But of all the sons of men I don't think there are many greater than he who lies under the great slab at Dryburgh. We can pass the long green ranks of the Waverley Novels and Lockhart's "Life" which flanks them. Here is heavier metal in the four big grey volumes beyond. They are an old-fashioned large-print edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson."
A few more large-print Testaments I laid in; some copies of the Gospel of John, in soft covers and good type; a few hymn books. All these cost little. But for Christmas gifts, and for new things to give help and comfort to my poor pensioners, I both plagued and bewitched my brain. It was sweet work.
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