Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story

be done, and dressmakers to be consulted and employed before the great event of the season came off. At length the important evenin

ent or beautiful piece of frescoe that adorned his home, for that home with its beautiful surroundings and costly furniture was the price of blood,

he barrier being thrown down Charles drank freely, till his tones began to thicken, and his eye to grow muddled, and he sat down n

ine has got into your head and you d

ve you're 'bout half-right

Thomas has gone home with a sick headache, and I know

ladstone, "really feel

real dizzy,"

"I feel as if I could hardl

sy, now just own right up, and be

oard: but we are not as bad as the girls of B.S., for they succeeded in out drinking

, but its slippery edge was concealed by flowers. They were playing with the

e as she entered her cousin's sitting-room the morning after

e fresh air? Can't you put on your things and go shopping with me?

en I am of some ac

are; who said y

a that you thought that I was

ars with its song, and pleases our eye with its beauty, and I am a firm beli

d, but I am as s

s the

splendid affair, everything was in the richest profusion, and their hous

I never wish to associate, or number as my especial

and what is the use of talking about the past; don

sful pirate who could fare sumptuou

Belle the cases is

liquor dealer and was bringing forth fruits meet for repentance, I would be among the first to hail his reformation with heartfelt satisfaction; but when I hear that while he no longer sells liquor, that he constantly offers it to his guests, I feel that he should rather sit

e subject of temperance. I think you must have written these li

t that I ha

a feeb

ously expressed. In my own sorrow-darkened home, and over my poor father's gra

some of our heads were rather dizzy, and I know that Mr. Romaine was out o

kened interest in you, and I know that you possess great influence over him. I saw it that night when he hesitated, when you first asked him to drink, and I was so sorry to see that influence. Oh Jeanette instead of bei

day at his dinner and I don't see that he is any worse off for it. If Cha

. When Charles Romaine was trying to abstain, you tempted him to break his reso

all be somewhat chary about receiving attention

, does not hinder me from feeling for him as a friend. And because I am his friend and yours a

ho refused except you and Mr. Freeman, and you are so straightlaced, and he is ra

le which stood firm in the midst of temptation and would not yield to the

am too tired. Won

ut I must go.

oom. "She will never be like any one else. I don't think she will ever get over my offering Mr. R

rang and Charles Romaine was announced, and weary as Jeanette was, she was too much interested in his society to r