the flood another another jacob another joseph another i see she found this excessively interesting � so did i we used to be quite glad sometimes when m came home later than usual then you know we got to and egypt which was very interesting ground i wanted her first to get a comprehensive view of history and its bearing on christianity she became profoundly interested in david � we went through the at the same time of course noticing the types when we got to solomon we read the and go on miss may � and all this while you know she was going to church every saint s day with madame crossing herself herself before different so she does now but in a different spirit her religion when i began with her was so completely that it left the door open for me now i am sometimes ready to tremble at the possible effect of the light breaking in upon her � yet how can i hold back what can i do go on telling me about your then you know we came to the when we began it was necessary to read the at the same time the new testament became our chief reading and we only read the in it we are now in st john s remarks are often excessively original and interesting sometimes she says another window is opened on me i what would her old religion master say luckily we have left him behind us what will m say i doubt if he will say anything he never gave me the smallest direction on the subject � laid no on me � asked no promises it was who before i left england that i should not be expected to attend the greek church and mr fell into profound thought his eyes glowed with some internal interest but its nature did not appear here comes our charming butterfly said he suddenly well since you have crushed the poor thing i will sing its and he began � poor bom to flutter and to die � falling into the second directly took the first till he got down to such unreasonable bass that he suddenly gave a shriek in that made stop her ears all at once the sky became darkened by clouds a sudden summer storm was impending the wind rose large drops of rain fell and increased to a torrent they could reach the house the thunder broke with a sound their heads and the lightning seemed to tear up the ground immediately their feet wet and panting burst into gay laughter as she reached the house and � hook the rain drops from her hair but who was rather overcome sought her own room and felt awed and subdued by the sudden the jews call thunder the voice of the lord thought she how grand how terrible it is and she repeated to herself the voice of the and lord is mighty in operation the voice of the lord is a glorious voice it the even the mighty of the voice of the lord the flames of fire the voice of the lord the wilderness yea even the of from a child she had had an instinctive dread of thunder and lightning which might have acquired an unreasonable had not her mother talked quietly to her about it and taught her a hymn which even now to her � how the tempest t the rain in rattling torrents my trembling soul that power who bade this tempest rise the wind and fulfil his word in them his glorious is heard by him the electric fires are stirred � of earth and skies oh tis a glorious blessed thing for which to praise thee my that i a helpless worm can cling with confidence to thee that i by faith amidst the storm can hear thy voice can view thy form nay feel thy warm extended over me amid the clapping to of doors and outer shutters along the numerous galleries and passages fancied she heard the peculiar tones of s voice in some of the distant offices o and afterwards meeting in the corridor the bright but suppressed smile on her lips and the light in her eye made conclude must really have unexpectedly arrived and she asked her oh dear no said immediately growing very a from has indeed arrived with for m but a very different looking person i assure you � quite a common man j and with a uttle jerk of the chin that spoke of offended dignity passed on on the family she found the s had occasioned no small disturbance m had been summoned to on official business of no pleasant complexion it would seem from the cloud on his brow dinner had been hastened and mr who was glad to improve his acquaintance with readily agreed to accompany his host when that gentleman in an kind of way said i suppose you don t want to go m seemed quite brightened by the idea of having him for his companion this will be very pleasant � very pleasant repeated he as he down his fish soup i don t expect to be there more than a day or two but it is lonely to be shut up by one s self at an inn and soon they were oflf and observed to how strange it was that mr should seem to have so won upon her father whom she had never seen to like any person so much before without knowing why felt melancholy in her sadness influenced by an uncomfortable as to the nature of her father s summons to though his habitual excluded her from any knowledge of his affairs suppose he should have displeased government said she and that whether or not there should be some charge for him to answer such things occur every day and as false witnesses are easily 