The Other Girls

nd sisters went off to Europe, and something had touched her young life that had left for a while an ache after it? Do you know Rachel Froke, and the little gray parlor, and the ferns, and

aelstrom of life, so many human affairs and interests are continually drifting, the far-apart persons that were to be the persons of one little history,-this same year had lifted Uncle Titus up. Out of his old age, out of his old house,-out from among his books, where he thought and questioned and studied,

and her life had grown into his and into his home,-

p had written letters to her overflowing with a mixture of sentiment and congratulation, condolence and d

e it so that she could stay. She was not going to leave him now. She would as soon have robbed him of his money and run away, while the handling of his money had been his own. It was but mere handling that made the diff

said. "It was such a pity, at her age. What would she be if she lived t

ustrial asylum that Luclarion Grapp's missionary work was taking shape in; in Chapel classes and teachers meetings; in a Wednesday evening Read-and-Talk, as they called it, that they had gathered some dozen girls and

is large property; the income of each portion to be severally theirs,-Desire's without restriction, Hazel's under her mother's guardianship, until each should come to the age of twenty-five years. If either of the two should die before that age, her share should devolve upon the other; if neither should survive it,-then followed a division among persons and charities, such, a

of this my will; but the Lord Himself shall be executor, above and through all; may He

ade as if the Almighty really had to do with things, a

marry-the Lord knows whom-and do,

did know. He had shown him part; enough to go by to the end of his

he bent old form from which the strength had risen and the real presence loosened itself; and Uncle Titus's grand, beautiful life passed over to them continually; for hands on earth, he had their hands; for feet, their feet. There was no break, as Desire had said; it was the wonderful "fellowship of the mystery" which God meant, in the manifold wisdom that they know in heavenly

and slowness of years, sprang to join itself to their youth on which he had laid his bequest of the Lord's work. They ran lightly up and down where he had walked with measured gravity; they chatted and laughed, for they knew he was gladder than either; they sat in Desire's large, bright chamber at their work, or they went down to find out things in books in the library; and here, though nothing fell with any chill upon their spirits, they handled reverently the volumes

movement now and then, in the stillness; or her voice came up through the open windows as she spoke to Fren

hat a lovely repose of stability, in the midst of the domestic ferments that are all about us in the changing households of these chang

denness in speech; it was like the way a good old seamstress I knew used to advise with the needle,-"Take your

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ays travelled so much on paper; and that paper travelling is very much like paper weddings; you can get all sorts of splendid things into it. There are books, and maps, and gaze

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y time, and repeat. 'Now say the five?

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at Mrs. Geoffrey and Miss Kirkbrigh

rly," said Hazel, flying off from the subject in hand at the mention of their names. "I wonder why it is fixed so, De

on, Hazel, about my plan. You know those two beautiful girls who came in Sunday before last, and joined M

rt of girls. As if they'd had chapel all their li

a feast for friends and neighbors, if I pick out the ready-made. But this sort of thing-you must have some reliance, you know; then there's something for the rest to come to, and grow to. I think I shall begin about it before vacation,

come in." I should like to just stay in the sunshine of it, and show what the stir of it was, and what it had come to with these two; what a brightness, day by day, they lived in. I should be glad to tell their piece of t

to have to do with the Ingrahams; how they belonged in one sphere and drew to one

d distracting medley; a heaping and a rushing together of many things and much conflicting action; where the wonder is that it stays together at all, or that one part plays and fits in with any other to harmony of service. If we could climb high enough, and see deep enough, to read a spiritual panorama in like manner, we shou

, we must go away an