so as scarce to seem a personality to its with the t then stood erect with the infant on beside t basin the next sister held the prayer book open before h as tlie clerk at church held it before the parson and th the girl set about her her figure looked tall and imposing as i stood in her long white cable of t dark hair hanging straight down her to her the kindly of the weak candle d f her form and features the little which might have revealed � tho upon her and the weariness of her eyes � her high enthusiasm h� vi a effect upon the face which had been i showing it as a of beauty wi an impress of dig which was almost i tho ut ones kneeling round their sleepy eyes and awaited her preparations full of a suspended wonder which their at that hour would not allow to become active maiden no more eldest of them be you going to him the girl n plied in a ave s his name going to lie she had not of that but a name came into her head as she proceeded with the and now sh e pronounced it i thee in the name of the father and b son and of the holy ghost ihe the water and there was silence say amen children b tiny voices in obedient response � went on we receive tliis child � and so forth � and do sign with the sign of the cross here she dipped her hand into the basin and fervently an immense cross upon the baby with lier forefinger continuing with the customary sentences as to his fighting against sin the world and the devil and being a faithful soldier and servant his life s end she duly went on with s prayer the en it after her iu a thin like wail till at the conclusion raising their voices to clerk s they again into the silence amen then their sister with confidence in the of this poured forth fi om the bottom of her heart the that follows uttering it boldly and in the note which her voice acquired when her heart was in her speech which will never be forgotten by those who knew her the ecstasy of faith almost her it set upon her n glowing and brought a red spot into the ii l of each cheek while candle flame in her eye pupils shone like a diamond i ail up at her with more and more and no i had a will for questioning she did not look like of the d to them now but as a being towering awful � a with whom they had nothing in poor sorrow s campaign against sin tho world and the devil was doomed to be of limited brilliancy � luckily perhaps for himself considering his in the blue of tbe morning tliat fragile soldier and servant his last and when the other children awoke cried bitterly and begged to have another pretty baby the calmness which had possessed since tlie remained with her in s loss in indeed she felt her terrors about his soul to have been somewhat whether well founded or not had no uneasiness now reasoning that if providence would such an act of she for one value the kind of heaven lost by the � t for herself or for her child so passed away sorrow the i � creature tliat gift of nature who not the ci il law a to whom time had been a i matter of days merely who knew not that things as years and centuries ever e to whom the cottage j was the universe the week s weather climate new i human existence and the instinct to i knowledge who mused on tho a good deal wondered if it were to secure a burial for the nobody could tell tliis but of the parish and he was a new comer and a very man she went to house after dusk and stood by gate but could not summon courage to go in the would have been abandoned if she had not by met him coming homeward ns she turned away in gloom she did not mind speaking freely i should like to ask you something sir he l his to listen and she told l� i i no more lot of the baby s and the and now sir she added earnestly can yon tell me � will it be just the same for him as if yon had having the natural feelings rf n at finding that a job be should have been called in for had been by his among themselves he wag disposed to say no yet the dignity of the girl the strange tenderness in her voice combined to affect his nobler impulses � or those that he had left in him after ten years of endeavor to belief on actual the man and the fought within him and the ry fell to the man my dear i ho said it will be just the same then will you give bim a christian i she asked the felt himself hearing of the baby s lie had come to the house after nightfall to perform the and unaware that the refusal to admit him had come from s father and not from he could not allow the plea of necessity � � h � that s another matter he said a � why asked rather warmly � t would willingly do so if only we two were con bnt i must not � for reasons t for once sir i must not sir for pity s sake she seized his band as he withdrew it shaking his head then i don t like you she burst out � and i ll never � ut your church no more ont so � i 