And I will stay with her; and will try
and learn myself that I may teach her; and learn to be good too--better
than I have been. Will praying help me, Laura? I did. I am sure I was
right, and that it is my duty to stay here.'"
Laura was greatly moved as she told her friend's confession; and when the
next day at church the clergyman read the opening words of the service I
thought a peculiar radiance and happiness beamed from her bright face.
* * * * * *
Some subsequent occurrences in the history of this branch of the Newcome
family I am enabled to report from the testimony of the same informant
who has just given us an account of her own feelings and life. Miss Ethel
and my wife were now in daily communication, and "my-dearesting" each
other with that female fervour, which, cold men of the world as we are--
not only chary of warm expressions of friendship, but averse to
entertaining warm feelings at all--we surely must admire in persons of
the inferior sex, whose loves grow up and reach the skies in a night; who
kiss, embrace, console, call each other by Christian names, in that
sweet, kindly sisterhood of Misfortune and Compassion who are always
entering into partnership here in life.
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