Me - Softcover

Anonymous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099273802 ISBN 13: 9780099273806

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1986

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... which she set before her boys; he really believed if they had not been led away, after her death, by extravagant, helpless wives, they might have been thrifty farmers still. I ventured the remark, "One of them is," but he shook his old head with an ominous shake, and ejaculated, "Such farming!" That almost annihilated me. I am so thankful Jack was not here to hear the conversation. He holds the name mother with a reverence and love which stirs his heart of hearts. There never was a good husband yet who had not been a good son to his mother. Jack comes Home. 103 We lost a dear little baby once, and when it died I looked to see my husband yielding to grief. It was a precious child, but when the little spirit was really gone, and the lifeless form settled heavily back upon my arm, and his eye met mine, it was with a cheerful smile and the ready remark: "It has gone to my mother. Oh, how she will love it!" Gone to Jesus is the sweetest comfort at such an hour; but, to my yet earthly ear, gone to grandma came freighted with rich and gracious consolation. Saul has been gone for Jack an hour or more; what can be keeping them? Perhaps they had business at the bank. Here they come. Jack is not singing. The little girls are hugging him. They are so happy when their papa arrives. Somehow I do not know what to do exactly. Shall I run to meet him? Yes, I will--I always did--why shouldn't I now? 104 Welcoming Jack. I feel as I do on a sunshiny day, when the air comes with a chill, and a slight darkness seems to gather over the blue, close down to the eastern horizon, and I start out for a drive wearing my best bonnet. I turn back, put my waterproof cloak and umbrella under the carriage seat. Everybody remonstrates, but I...

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