Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...in the back hall, but this morning, the machine work being finished, she had brought her work, white dresses for the twins, up to the nursery. They all loved the wide, airy chamber; Miss Southernwood said that it was like the upper chamber where Jesus came to His disciples. The name of it was certainly Peace. She was working busily and a stranger who did not understand the sudden luminous leap into the eyes or the tremble about the lips when her words were lightest might have thought she was working cheerily. She did work cheerily as they work who hear the Lord say, "It is I, be not afraid." All the conversation was concerning to-day--all of it, unless her mother alluded to her future, to the future of them all; none of Bek's spoken plans touched to-morrow; she dared not trust herself to think oi next winter, she hardly dared trust herself to think of next month. There would be no dreadful to-morrow in the kingdom up above; perhaps there was no dreadful to-morrow in the kingdom here below--Miss Southernwood told her there was not; but Bek's aching human heart was not yet filled with perfect faith. "Honolulu! Honolulu!" cried Chip through the halls. He insisted that he called Lulu this "for long." His mother smiled as the teasing, boyish voice rang through the house. Children's noises never disturbed her quiet, she would not have her children hushed and saddened by any burden of her suffering. "You wouldn't know there was any one sick in the house," declared one of the neighbors. "I like to see some difference when death is so near." But the "some difference" was in all their hearts, in all their prayers, and in the faces that hid themselves in the pillows when it was dark in the night. Other noises...
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