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Updated: June 23, 2025


Is it reasonable to suppose that a people possessing so much wisdom, mercy, and purity two centuries before Christ was born could need to borrow from the Christian ethics? Mr. Lillie says of King Asoka: He antedates Wilberforce in the matter of slavery. He antedates Howard in his humanity towards prisoners. He antedates Tolstoy in his desire to turn the sword into a pruning-hook.

Anne giggled still harder, and tossed her head: "Then it's to jail I'll have to go; for I don't know." "Dear me," said Lillie, with an air of edifying candor, "what a fuss they make! Set down my age 'twenty-seven, John," she added. Grace started, and looked at John; he met her eye, and blushed to the roots of his hair.

"I have at home the figurehead of the old sloop Faith and Prudence. It is the image of a man, with a nose not unlike the one Master Lillie carries on his face. Let us saw the head off, nail it to a pole, and set it up in front of his shop with a notice attached warning all honest citizens against trading with him."

Presently Lillie chanced to glance at the little communicant's white gown, which, though fresh and dainty as loving hands could make it, was unmistakably well worn, and in some places had evidently been carefully darned; indeed, her sharp eyes discovered even a tiny tear in the skirt, as if Annie had unwittingly put her fingers through it when searching for the pocket.

The next spring, while the gables of the new cottage on Elm Street were looking picturesquely through the blossoming cherry-trees, and the smoke was curling up from the chimneys where Grace and her husband were cosily settled down together, there came to John's house another little Lillie. The little creature came in terror and trembling.

"Besides, how could she have looked pretty in a mended dress? I wish you could see the one I'm going to have! It's to be of white silk, the best that can be got at Brown's." "It won't be any more beautiful than mine. I'm to have tulle," said Lillie. "And I " continued Constance. "Mine is to be trimmed with point-lace," broke in another. "And I'm to wear mamma's diamonds," boasted somebody else.

"Charlie Danforth oh! he's a millionnaire that I refused. He was wild about me, is now, for that matter. He perfectly haunts my rooms, and is always teasing me to ride with him." "Well, Lillie, if I were you, I wouldn't have any thing to do with him." "John, I don't mean to, any more than I can help. I try to keep him off all I can; but one doesn't want to be rude, you know."

"I know it I know it oh, it was wrong of me!" and Lillie sobbed, and seemed in danger of falling into convulsions; and John's heart gave out. He gathered her in his arms. "I can't help loving you; and I can't live without you," he said, "be you what you may!" Lillie's little heart beat with triumph under all her sobs: she had got him, and should hold him yet.

There was a sound of stamping feet at the front door; and John came in, all ruddy and snow-powdered, but looking, on the whole, uncommonly cheerful. "Well, Gracie," he said, "the fact is, I shall have to let Lillie go to New York for a week or two, to see those Follingsbees. Hang them! But what's the matter, Gracie? Have you been crying, or sitting up all night reading, or what?"

"Nothing could be better, unless we had his name with the others." "But the head is there," Jim replied, "and even Master Lillie himself must see that the face is like to his." "Unless he is over-fond of looking in a mirror, he may make a mistake," Hardy persisted. "Can't you put his name on the board with the others?"

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