The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-07

head against wall. You wished
for child, Margaret. There's
a. descent into hell for every
soul that's saved alive. I have
descended. / am in the abyss now.
must go on in the help of the Lord.
Think whether it is easy to say this to
you. The boy is bitter against your
husband; forgive him. We are older
and wiser. We know how all these
resentments must end." z aTF
Hannah" said Mrs. Fem, with
an expression on her face, and tone
in her voice new to Hannah's eyes
and ears, Hannah, do you share
them?
Margaret, whatedo you Think"
= | think you are a better woman
than / am"
Margaret did not add, 81 agree
with Ned. | understand him
better than l do you. ], have al
ways felt as he does. Fem became
jealous about it; he thought it was on
poor Matthews account, and not for
justice" All this was truth, but she
said instead, Fem shall be pacifed
if can manage it. You think / can
do it easily enough. Perhaps | could
hif--I were wiser woman y fAs 4
-, . Margaret, have you lost your hus-I
band, too-you, as well as I?'' said
Hannah. XTs2oi9 sa''i9
Margaret looked at her.
$ Is that the question to ask a
wife 261 said she. - ..5s - i,s-2'
It is not Forgive it. God alone
can come into the Silent heart with
out intruding." EEa 9tssr IN
- I have not lost him, Hannah, nor
he me; yet there ISL loss. [ can go
down-into the abyss, as you said. /
stand on its edge Yet what saliva
ton is to me-" 81
"None in any arm created. Yet
there is the abyss; what can we do
but follow?" said Hannah.
In the garden Edward stood
looking about among the roses
those rare bushes which Mrs. Fem
had brought him years ago and
which year by year he had tended
with such care. There were none now
in bloom.
Margaret Crosby walked up the path
behind him, and said:
We shall have no grand sunset to-
night, but how glorious it always is up
here! Even those gray clouds, how
soft they are! how lovely!" --
He turned about, not half pleased
at the sound of the voice, but his eyes
were constrained to follow in the di-
rection of hers.
Not bright. That could not be
borne. There is every soft shade of
gray. 1t is pity that you do not have
the sunset from the river"
Il think so. Z Edward, i have been
reading to my aunt about Homer, and
wish | knew his language"
+ He looked at her with SO grave and
undisguised an establishment, that
Margaret's brown cheek shone with a
glow brighter even than usual
why 2Ihe asked j HlE2B1 AlDi
Because" said she, With spirit,
THAT is my best reason. I don t
know any other -'lh 'l1''-7
Il thought so3Ahe turned away to
look at the gray sky again-it charmed
! him-and she did not, She. belonged
to Fenn's family-the idea in the alb
stract was hateful to him.
|" can, tell you, if you wish to
know, said she; I think that one
should know everything, Why
shouldn'tI learn Greek? Perhaps |
shall translate Homer some day."
" Perhaps you will i cf. aa
" want to be able to take care of
mvself." she said impetuouslv. but as
she spoke thus strongly, Margaret
leaned against "a tree. She
had never, that he had seen,
other beauty than that of health
and of youth. But the soul that was
bestirring itself seemed to add some
thing just now to these wholesome
charms aei al - g
i Must one learn Greek first, for
that?" answered he-and there was
no little cruelty in the indifference
with which his spirit listened to the
expression hers was seeking :! I
st is necessary to know something,
to begin somewhere Do you know
Creek" ~ eaY f92 -alii
+ Yes, little" a1 Psi
+ Will you teach me?n Il seemed
to him that this question was likely to
-ffollow. He thought that to ask it she
had gone thus far. But, in fact, she
was surprised herself when she found
that she was on the brink of the
question, and instead of asking it she
walked down the path to the end of
it. When she came back she said,
| Everything looks so uncertain. |
had a letter this morning from a
friend. She is going to teach. We
studied Latin together
Do you read Latin?" he asked,
surprised Hlo77 Jhf cue
(" A little. I might have known a
great deal more, but [ shall go back
to 1t now. Her father died last year.