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Dlimm had a great argument over a knotty theological point, I suppose he feels somewhat repaid also." This put matters in quite another light. That one should go to see a parson's wife, and the other to discuss theology with the parson, was very different from stealing off for an indefinite ride with the purpose of being alone together.
"Ah! depend upon it, you are learning lots of things," said Mrs. Dlimm, significantly. "When God begins to teach, then we do learn, and something worth knowing, too." "I thought that God's lessons were very hard and painful," said Lottie to Hemstead, with a spice of mischief in her manner. "Mrs. Dlimm is a better authority than I was," he replied.
Let us also all learn, from this lady's action, to think of the Divine Giver of all good before his best earthly gifts." Mrs. Dlimm had recovered herself sufficiently by this time to turn to the people around her and say, with a gentle dignity that would scarcely have been expected from her: "The gentleman has truly interpreted to you my very heart.
"What kind of a Jew was Nathanael?" asked Lottie, innocently. "Christ said, when he first saw him," replied Mrs. Dlimm, smiling, "'Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile."
For some reason, her philosophy was peculiarly acceptable to Lottie, and, though scarcely conscious why, the exhortation to follow the impulses of her own heart seemed especially natural and right; but her fashionable mother would have been alarmed indeed, if she had known that her beautiful daughter was becoming the disciple of Mrs. Dlimm.
Lottie laughed again, and putting her arm around the little lady said, aloud: "Mrs. Dlimm, you and your baby could go right back to the Garden of Eden, and I rather think Mr. Hemstead could be your escort." "I trust we are all going to a far better place," she replied, quickly. "I fear I'm going the other way," said Lottie, shaking her head.
But I know there will be a nook there for us, and the thought makes me very happy." "And you really and truly have been happy in all your toil and privations?" "Yes," said Mrs Dlimm, with a strange, far-away look coming into her large blue eyes; "when everything on earth has been darkest I have been most happy, and this has confirmed my faith.
"I knew you would come," said Mrs. Dlimm, taking both of Lottie's hands with utter absence of formality. "Husband said I needn't look for you any more, but I felt it in my bones no, my heart that you would come. When I feel a thing is going to take place it always does. So you are here. I am very glad to see your Mr. Hemstead too. This is splendid." And Mrs.
Scrub Oaks is as much of a place as many of the villages in which He preached, and I am grateful that I can take part in so royal a calling." "Mrs. Dlimm," said Lottie, with sudden animation, "I shouldn't wonder if you and your husband were very great people in heaven." "Oh!" cried the little lady, laughing. "We never think of that. Why should we?
Lottie looked as if she were examining a zoological specimen. Mrs. Dlimm gazed with a smile of deep content and tenderness. The undisturbed rest of the child upon her bosom was a type of her own mind at that moment. She was nature's child, God's child, and the babe was hers.
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