Then there followed so much talk, while no one knew scarcely what
was saying; and it was Mr. Walton, chiefly, that told how Fanny's
father had had so much to struggle against, and so much hardship to
go through, but how he had succeeded at last, and got on very well;
now he had tried then to find out Mrs. Newton and his dear little
Fanny, but could not, because Mrs. Newton had changed her abode; how,
at last, he had met with a good opportunity to sell his land, and had
now come over with the money he had earned, to find his child, and
repay her kind benefactor.
Oh, what a happy evening was that in the widow's cottage! the
widow's heart sang for joy. The widow, and she that had always
thought herself an orphan, were ready to sing together--
"Mortals flee from doubt and sorrow,
God provideth for the morrow."
Mrs. Newton found that Mr. Marsden, that was the name of Fanny's
father, was all that she could desire Fanny's father to be:--a
Christian in deed and in truth; one thankful to God and to her, for
the preservation and care of his child; and who would not willingly
separate Fanny from her, or let her leave Fanny.
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