... the lonely, motherless child, more accustomed to harsh, unsparing reproof than to any other language. Miss Preston, glad to see at least that her interest ...
... of strawberries this afternoon.. Where. interrupted Harry eagerly. Was anybody speaking to you. asked his cousin, laughing. But I'll tell you ...
... the work of all His children who will do what He gives them to do, that while some may seem to have more leisure than others, all have their appointed ...
... somewhere beyond that blue sky. With so many pleasant things around her, the thought of their Maker was pleasant too. But then Miss Preston had told ...
... Ford's sleek, glossy black favourite while Harry was, to his intense delight, cantering up and down the road to the gate, on the stout little pony ...
... the ruling principle, had already exercised a healthful influence over her impressionable nature. On this particular Sunday the interesting announcement ...
... time of temptation, and to do it in the first place. And Jesus is always ready to hear and help you, she added. An' it was Him told you to give ...
... teaching a girl who would give her so much additional trouble. But there are other people, she said, who would be very glad of a child like Nelly, ...
... as his own. The more Lucy thought about the matter, the more distinctly she saw that there was no other way rightly open to her, especially as, even ...
... shy as yet to talk without encouragement, which Sophy did not give and she felt it a relief when Stella, with her unfailing loquacity, made her appearance. You ...
... from going up to an earthly sanctuary, she could worship God at home in the sanctuary of her heart. But she did not find this so easy, as Stella, ...
... see servants are very hard to obtain in those large places, remarked Mrs. Thompson, and they always want the highest wages and this person isn't ...
... play for her, knowing well that she had no pennies to offer in return but at such times she used to wish so much that she had a little money of her ...
... grimly she's left this some time since, and I don't never want to set eyes on her again.. Is she not here, then. Where is she gone.. I don't ...
... of the shadowy evening, broken only by the flitting fireflies, or to the flood of silver light shed by the rising moon. But Amy was never to be allowed ...
... during the years of school life without seeing what special use we may be called to make of our acquisitions, still God will undoubtedly find some use ...
... far with her father, who could seldom deny her anything, as to obtain leave to go to as many private parties as she could, without interfering with her ...
... in which he accompanied his sister and her friend. Mary and he got on as well as Lucy had expected, although she was disappointed that, after their ...
... of them, Sunday-school teachers now. Mrs. Ford and Bessie were much shocked at the change in Stella, whose blooming appearance they well remembered. ...
... in a home which she could consider as really her own. It was no small trial to Lucy, when the time came, to say a long farewell to her aunt and ...