The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

146 The Gates Ajar. members, most of them. She seemed to have taken their hearts by storm. She says, " They treated me very prettily, and made me love them at once." Clo Bentley is in the class; Clo is a pretty, soft-eyed little creature, with a shrinking mouth, and an absorbing passion for music, which she has always been too poor to gratify. I suspect that her teacher will make a pet of her. She says that in the course of her lesson, or, in her words," While we were all talking together, somebody pulled my sleeve, and there was Clo in the corner, with her great brown eyes fixed on me.'See here!' she said in a whisper,'I can't be good! I would be good if I could only just have a piano!''Well, Clo,' I said,'if you will be a good girl, and go to heaven, I think you will have a piano there, and play just as much as you care to.' " You ought to have seen the look the child gave me! Delight and fear and incredulous bewilderment tumbled over each other, as if I had proposed taking her into a forbidden fairy-land. "'Why, Mrs. Forceythe! Why, they won't let anybody have a piano up there! not in heaven f'

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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