The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

132 The Gates Ajar. all the time, I said nothing to her. I thought that she would shut herself up for the day, and was rather surprised that she was about as usual, busily at work, chatting with me, and playing with Faith. Just after tea, she went away alone for a time, and came back a little quiet, but that was all. I was for some reason impressed with the feeling that she kept the day in memory, not so much as the day of her mourning, as of his release. Longing to do something for her, yet not knowing what to do, I went into the garden while she was away, and, finding some carnations, that shone like stars in the dying light, I gathered them all, and took them to her room, and, filling my tiny porphyry vase, left them on the bracket, under the photograph of Uncle Forceythe that hangs by the window. When she found them, she called me, and kissed me. " Thank you, dear," she said, " and thank God too, Mary, for me. That he should have been happy, -happy and out of pain, for three long beautiful years! 0, think of that! " When I was in her room with the flowers, I passed the table on which her little Bible lay open. A mark of rich ribbon -a black rib

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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