"How kind and thoughtful for others she is! how sweet and gentle, how
patient and resigned. I will try to be more like her. How truly she obeys
the command 'Be pitiful, be courteous.'
"But why should one so lovely, so devoted a Christian, be visited with so
sore a trial? I can see why my trials were sent. I was so proud and
worldly; and they were necessary to show me my need of Jesus; but she has
loved and leaned upon him since she was a little child."
CHAPTER TWENTIETH.
"Let them die,
Let them die now, thy children! so thy heart
Shall wear their beautiful image all undimm'd
Within it to the last."
--MRS. HEMANS.
Lily seemed a little stronger in the morning, and the brothers and sisters
were allowed to go in by turns and speak to her.
Violet chose to be the last, thinking that would, perhaps, secure a little
longer interview.
Lily with mamma by her side, lay propped up with pillows--her eyes bright,
a lovely color on her almost transparent cheek, her luxurious hair lying
about her like heaps of shining gold, her red lips smiling a joyous
welcome, as Vi stooped over her.
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