duties will spring from it looking at your life as a debt may seem the view of things at a distance but it cannot really be so what makes life dreary is the daniel der want of motive but once beginning to act with that loving purpose you have in your mind there will be unexpected � there will be newly opening continually coming to carry you on from day to day you will find your life growing like a plant turned her eyes on him with the look of one towards the sound of unseen waters felt the look as if she had been stretching her arms towards him from a forsaken shore his voice took an affectionate when he this sorrow which has cut down to the root has come to you while you are so young � try to think of it not as a of your life but as a preparation for it let it be a preparation any one his tones would have thought he was for his own happiness see you have been saved from the worst evils that might have come from your marriage which you feel was wrong you have had a vision of injurious selfish action � a vision of possible degradation think that a severe angel seeing you along the road of error grasped you by the wrist and showed you the horror of the life you must avoid and it has come to you in your spring time think of it as a preparation you can you will book viii � fruit and seed be among the best of women such as make others glad that they were born the words were like the touch of a miraculous hand to mingled emotions streamed through her frame with a strength that seemed the beginning of a new existence having some new powers or other which stirred in her vaguely so is the divine hope of moral recovery with the energy that it so potent in us is the action of another soul before which we bow in complete love but the new existence seemed inseparable from the hope seemed to make his presence permanent it was not her thought that he loved her and would cling to her � a thought would have with it was her spiritual breath for the first time since that terrible moment on the sea a flush rose and spread over her cheek brow and neck deepened an instant or two and then gradually disappeared she did not speak advanced and put out his hand saying i must not weary you she was startled by the sense that he was going and put her hand in his still without speaking you look ill yet � unlike yourself he added while he held her hand daniel i can t sleep much she answered with some return of her manner things repeat themselves in me so they come back � they will all come back she ended a chill fear threatening her by degrees they will be less said he could not drop her hand or move away from her abruptly sir says he shall come to stay at said at previously intended words which had slipped away from her you will come too probably said and then feeling that the word was cold he added yes i shall come and then released her hand with the final friendly pressure of one who has said good bye and not again here before i leave town said with timid sadness looking as pallid as ever what could say if i can be of any use � if you wish me � certainly i will i must wish it said you know i must wish it what strength have i who else is there again a sob was rising felt a pang which showed itself in his book viii � fruit and seed face he looked miserable as he said i will certainly come perceived the change in his face but the intense relief of expecting him to come again could not give way to any other feeling and there was a recovery of the inspired hope and courage in her don t be unhappy about me she said in a tone of affectionate assurance i shall remember your words � every one of them i shall remember what you believe about me i shall try she looked at him firmly and put out her hand again as if she had forgotten what had passed since those words of his which she promised to remember but there was no approach to a smile on her lips she had never smiled since her husband s death when she stood still and in silence she looked like a melancholy statue of the whose laughter had once been so ready when others were grave it is only by remembering the searching anguish which had changed the aspect of the world for her that we can understand her behaviour to the nay the pleading with which she expressed her dependence on him vol iv u daniel der tions such as would have filled the of indifferent spectators could not occur to her any more than if flames had been mounting around her and she had flung herself into his opened arms and clung about his neck that he might her into safety she identified him with the struggling process in her which had begun with his action is it any wonder that she saw her own necessity reflected in his feeling she was in that state of unconscious reliance and expectation which is a common experience with us when we are with our own trouble or our own purposes we our feeling over others and count on their acting from our motives her imagination had not been turned to a future union with by any other than the spiritual tie which had been continually but also it had not been turned towards a 