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But the usually busy needle lay idle, and the busier hands were folded, as the mother-heart went over the words she knew were being rehearsed downstairs by the kind friend who had made a home for them. He was pleading her cause with her children. "They shall be happy, anyway," she said softly to herself, "bless their hearts!" as they burst in. "Mother," said Ben How the boy's cheek glowed!

And I know He will not fail me. I am still praying, of course, as ever, and I am trusting for him." She had been carrying a load that she should not have been carrying. And now while the mother-heart was still concerned as much as ever, the sense of assured victory brought the change in her spirit.

Oh! how blessed to have done with the Riviera, and its hybrid empty life, for good and all! how blessed even, to have done with the Alps and Italy! how blessed, above all, to have come home! home into the heart of this English land warm mother-heart, into which she, stranger and orphan, might creep and be at rest. The eloquence of her own thoughts possessed her.

In that room and there alone, the fair, gentle, woful creature gave free reign to the grief of her stricken mother-heart. The room was kept just as her boy had left it, for she constantly hoped against hope that he would return. Hers was the aching, pent-up grief of a mother whose child is dead, yet she is denied the solace of mourning.

Its people love "the city" because, within the memory of man it was built, and within the memory of child, rebuilt. They themselves helped to build and rebuild it. They have worked and fought for it through every inch and instant of its history. It takes the stranger that Amazon city into its great, warm, beating mother-heart. If you are sick it makes you well. If you are sad it makes you glad.

Some one had put a cloud over her sun, and her life was never what it otherwise might have been. Children may darken the hearts and lives of their parents. How many times is the mother-heart or father-heart grieved by the conduct of the children! It may be that they are only thoughtless, or they may be disobedient and wilful.

So she came to him quickly, taking his hand in both her own, and striving to bring him comfort from the fountain of her little mother-heart. "Don't you worry, Daddy-man. We'll we'll whip 'em yet." "No, dear no," he sighed, as he dropped into his seat. "We won't. It's hard enough on men; but harder still on children such as you."

A thousand emotions overwhelmed her at the terrifying sight before her. Love, fear, horror, all broke forth from her lips in a sharp, hysterical cry, but above this cry sounded the gay laughter of the children who were playing in the next room, their shrill young voices raised in merriment over some new sport. In a second the mother-heart asserted itself.

He sees the "fall and rising again of many in Israel"; it is God's will: let His will be done! "A sword shall pierce through thy own soul also": bow, mother-heart, to the purposes of God's heart of love! "In peace" this servant of the Lord still stands; "in peace" he departs. Blessed are they whom darkling truths may grieve, but not distract; whom stormy revelations beat upon, but cannot shake.

She fidgeted with embarrassment as silence fell upon them and she felt Gordon's eyes upon her. She could not resist his steady gaze, and as her eyes met his the look in them stirred her mother-heart to its depths and set her to trembling.