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He thought of her kneeling there in the faded shabby church Sunday after Sunday for years and years, when he was working at hot pressure far away. He knew just how her eyes would look calmly, trustfully up to the God she spoke to; how her soul would grow in gentleness; how love would be the very atmosphere around her.

"I want Graylock," he whispered. The girl flushed, bent nearer, gazing at him intently. "Graylock," he repeated. "Not now," she murmured, "not today. Rest for a while." "Please," he said, looking up at her trustfully "Graylock. Now." "When you are well " "I am well. Please, dear."

Clark, and leaning trustfully on his arm the comfortable figure of Mrs. Bowman. Her brow was unruffled and her lips smiling. "Beautiful morning," she said, pleasantly, as they met. "Lovely!" murmured the wondering Mr. Tucker, trying, but in vain, to catch the eye of Mr. Clark. "I have been paying an early visit," said the widow, still smiling. "I surprised you, didn't I, Nathaniel?"

She remembered the chat in the strawberry bed, laughed, and colored brightly, as she answered with her hand trustfully in David's, her eyes full of loving pride and reverence lifted to his face: "I've seen both sides of the medal now, and found it 'sterling gold. Hero or not I'm content; for, though he 'loves his mother much, there is room in his heart for me too; his 'old books' have given him something better than learning, and he has convinced me that 'double flowers' are loveliest and best."

I want you I can't live without you! Will you come to me, Mabel? She put both hands trustfully in his as she said, 'Yes, Mark, and without any more words just then on either side, their troth was plighted. He was still holding the hands she had resigned to him, hardly daring as yet to believe in this realisation of his dearest hopes, when someone stepped quickly in through the light curtains.

They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the nearest carpenter and his boy a sightless, soundless, interspaced, embryonic region and entered a long avenue which, fringed on either side with fresh villas, offering themselves trustfully to the public, had the distinction of a wide pavement of neat red brick.

Johnny asked trustfully. Ray smiled and shook his head. "I've been out on some, John. I've never been exactly in on any. So far, I've either held on too long or let go too soon. But mine's coming to me, all right." Ray looked reflective. He leaned back in the shadow and dug out a rest for his elbow in the sand. "The narrowest escape I ever had, was in the Bridal Chamber.

Her face was piquant but not intellectual, and scarcely beautiful. It pleased rather by its life and motion and oddity than by its beauty. She looked at her companion in a peculiar way trustfully, almost reverently and yet with a touch of coquetry which seemed perfectly native to every turn of her body or glance of her eyes. Her companion was a fine Western type of self-made man.

He caught sight of her, hesitated the fraction of a moment, and as he came forward again the cloud in his eyes vanished. And yet she was aware that he was regarding her curiously. "What," he said gayly, "still here?" "It is too beautiful!" she cried. "I could sit here forever." She lifted her face trustfully, smilingly, to his, and he stooped down and kissed it....

In this journey the Master has kindly gone before us; reverently, trustfully, we shall follow his steps. "He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world." It is in connection with the "field" that the greatest difficulty has occurred, the greatest mistakes have been made, and the deepest injury has been done.