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FIRST IMPRESSIONS. “There’s iron, they say, in all our blood, And a grain or two perhaps is good; But his, he makes me harshly feel, Has got a little too much of steel.” Anon. “ Margaret !” said Mr. …
MORNING CALLS. “Well—I suppose we must.” Friends in Council. Mr. Thornton had had some difficulty in working up his mother to the desired point of civility. She did not often make calls; and when sh…
SOFT BREEZE IN A SULTRY PLACE. “That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, And anguish, all, are shadows vain, That death itself shall not remain; That weary deserts we may tread, A dreary labyrinth may …
THE MEETING. “I was used To sleep at nights as sweetly as a child,— Now if the wind blew rough, it made me start, And think of my poor boy tossing about Upon the roaring seas. And then I seemed To fe…
MASTERS AND MEN. “Thought fights with thought; out springs a spark of truth From the collision of the sword and shield.” W. S. Landor. “ Margaret ,” said her father, the next day, “we must return Mrs…
THE SHADOW OF DEATH. “Trust in that veiled hand, which leads None by the path that he would go; And always be for change prepared, For the world’s law is ebb and flow.” From the Arabic. The next aft…
WHAT IS A STRIKE? “There are briars besetting every path, Which call for patient care; There is a cross in every lot, And an earnest need for prayer.” Anon. Margaret went out heavily and unwillingly…
LIKES AND DISLIKES. “My heart revolts within me, and two voices Make themselves audible within my bosom.” Wallenstein. On Margaret’s return home she found two letters on the table: one was a note fo…
ANGEL VISITS. “As angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.” Henry Vaughan. Mrs. Hale was curiou…
MEN AND GENTLEMEN. “Old and young, boy, let ’em all eat, I have it; Let ’em have ten tire of teeth a-piece, I care not. Rollo, Duke of Normandy. Margaret went home so painfully occupied with what sh…
