A Sealed Book
Alice Livingstone
Paperback
(General Books LLC, Jan. 31, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXI HUSBAND AND WIFE "Darling, oughtn't you to leave me?" Justin Aylmer asked. His wife bent and kissed his hand. "No," she said, " I ought not, and I will not. Oh, how I thank Heaven that you are better--that you are not to be taken from me, after all! I feel as if I could never leave you again." The clergyman sighed faintly; then, lest the thought of sadness in his mind should fly to hers, he checked the sigh, and smiled. "May the day come when we need be parted no more," he said, "Not through my father's death--don't think I mean that, dearest. Even to have you with me always, I could not wish him one hour less on earth. Poor father! He is far more to be pitied than we are. We have each other, we have Grace, and our love. God has been very good to me in every way; and I have been happy, too, in doing what I could for my dear people here in the village. No; it is for the softening of my father's heart towards me that I pray every night and every morning; and sometimes, even as I walk along the moor on the way to some cottage, I find myself praying for it." "Perhaps the answer to your prayers will be given through Grace," said his wife. "It was a terrible blow to find that the poor little one had left home, secretly, thinking to save us her support, and to earn money as a help to us both. I feared it was a punishnu-nt from Heaven to me for tacitly deceiving her about my life, as I have been forced to do; and then, when I discovered that she was in your father's house, rub for us all seemed certain. But, after all, instead of a punishment, her going to her grandfather may prove one of the greatest blessings which has ever come to us from Heaven." "It is the strangest thing altogether that ever happened out of a story," said the man who for years h...