The Good Time Coming

us portico, after her return from the sick woman's cottage; and drawing her arm within

on canvas colours so full of a living beauty. Deep purple and luce

in the ai

loating elysium

, as his eyes sought the western horizon, and for the first time si

rkland, chidingly, "You are not on

o say, my gentle monitor?" returned t

or sordid; and you know I did not." She

y worldly

ot use t

not only in the

the habit of the world to close its eyes to the r

nd that defect

eyes were not able to bring intelligenc

Happily, like Pegasus, it has broad and strong pinions-can rise free from the prisoner's cell and the rich man's dainty pal

usband," said Mrs. Marklan

where would the world be

und for an argument. I I don't know where the world would be under the circumsta

ll atte

ings that are scattered like unseen pearls about t

've been studying for the last hal

the conclusion at whi

law of our being, impressed by the Creator, t

ation for a happy future. Rather, in the wooing of sweet Content to-day, are we making a hom

t something more than it possesses-who does not look to a coming tim

with our mere natural surroundings a law of the Creator, established as a spur to advancement; for this disquietude is but the effect of a deeper cause. It is n

and progression of the spirit as well as of the body; for all physical laws have their origin in the world of mind, and bear thereto exact relations. Yet, for all this, when there is a deep dissatisfaction with what exists around

hough we roam the world over; and it may be, that the narrow path to heaven lies just across our own fields. It is in the actual a

an find no w

ready," was the earnestly spoken answ

from this lovely Eden, and pines for new fields in which to display its powers. Here I fondly hoped to spend the remainder of my life-contented-happy. The idea was a dreamy illusion. Daily is this seen in clear light. I reprove myself; I chide the folly, as I call it; bu

y fallen upon the lovely home where she had hoped to spend all the days of her life-a shadow from a storm-boding cloud. Even from the beginning of their wedded life, she had marked in her husband a defect of character, which, gaining strength, had led to his giving up business, and their retirement to the country. That defect was the common one, appertaining to all, a looking away from the present into the future for the means of enjoyment. In all the years of

some glittering toy-could not remain their permanent home. For this flowed her first tears; and these, as we have said, were for herself. But her mind soon regained its serenity; and from herself, her thoughts turned to her husband. She was unselfish

d children are left. My husband, so generous, so

nded and joined her family in the sitting-room, where the soft astral diffused its pleasant light, and greeted her sober-minded husband with loving smiles and cheerful words. And he was deceived. Not for an instant imagined he, after looking upon her face, that she had passed through a painful, though brief conflict, and was now possessed of a brave heart for any chang

d Mr. Markland, after the children had retir

land; and, as she lifted her eyes,

you, dear?" he

lied, "Why should I be troubled? Have I

, your eyes are

ly an April shadow, Edward, that is quickly lost in Apri

seems wanting. Yet my spirit is like a aged

speak in hyperbole. This lovely place, which everywhere shows the

er to be an idle lingerer among its pleasant groves; for

inutes, her husband said, with a slight hesitation in h

e felt a strong desi

here was a look in her eyes that her husband did no

he added, "and the tour would not

down so low that he could not see, its expression

enjoy the tri

d not think o

dream for a moment of any pleasu

oy tremble over her heart-strings. And yet, for all, she could not keep back t

red singular in her manner that evening, he was puzzled to comprehend its meaning