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Henceforth I hope to live to serve One to whom all honour and allegiance are due." I need not say how thankful I felt at hearing my grandfather speak in this way. I had been taught to believe, and not incorrectly, that he had led a thoughtless life, utterly indifferent to religion, and that it was owing to this that he had lived abroad and shown no regard for my mother.
DEAREST CHILD. I have been expecting to hear from you for a week. In your last you said the Langens thought of leaving Leubronn and going to Baden. How could you be so thoughtless as to leave me in uncertainty about your address? I am in the greatest anxiety lest this should not reach you.
"Don't be hard on him, David," pleaded the wife, tearfully, as she looked up in her husband's face. "He's only a bit thoughtless; and I shouldn't wonder if he was already down at the smack."
Did she not turn to God, and enter into a covenant with Him 'I will be so good? Why, it draws her out of herself! If her life has hitherto been self-seeking, and wickedly thoughtless, here is the very instrument to make her forget herself, and be thoughtful for another.
"I want to know when that letter reached you." "On the afternoon of the day I was married." "Good Lord!" the other ejaculated blankly. "And all that I wrote of, was it news to you?" Lenox nodded without looking up. "My dear fellow, for God's sake don't tell me that a thoughtless letter of mine was responsible " Lenox rose and went over to the mantelpiece.
I no longer looked upon these toiling women with the thoughtless eyes of youth. I saw no humor in the bent forms and graying hair of the men. I began to understand that my own mother had trod a similar slavish round with never a full day of leisure, with scarcely an hour of escape from the tugging hands of children, and the need of mending and washing clothes.
Every one, who lives upon the bounties of heaven, who enjoys the sweets of existence, and remains thoughtless of God, is practically an atheist. As saith Paul, "They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."
"The question is, are you sorry you have been so thoughtless?" "Yes, dear. Oh! oh!" "Will you be very good to make up?" "Oh, yes. Only tell me how; for it does not come natural to poor me." "Keep out of those women's way for the rest of the season." "I will." "Bring your stays home, and allow me to do what I like with them." "Of course. Cut them in a million pieces."
"Tabby cats are such nice pets," the man interrupted, "so gentle and nice and pretty." "But I'm homely. If I was pretty maybe they wouldn't call me names." "No, dear, it isn't that. When they plague you, you scratch; and so they like to tease. If you paid no attention to the thoughtless things they said, they would soon stop teasing." "Do you really think they would?
Nor were there wanting those who employed their wits in scoffing at the undertaking and in pouring thoughtless indignation on the engineers. Nevertheless the work went on continually. The initial difficulties of the task were aggravated by an unexpected calamity.
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