The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 17I begged "to hear some of those queer things people said she believed about heaven." Auntie is never obtrusive with her views on this or any other matter, but, being thus urged, she answered a few questions that they put to her, to the extreme scandal of one or two old ladies, and the secret delight of the rest. "Well," said little Mrs. Bland, squeezing and kissing her youngest, who was at that moment vigorously employed in sticking very long darning-needles into his mother's waterfall, "I hope there'11 be a great many babies there. I should be perfectly happy if I always could have babies to play with! " The look that Aunt Winifred shot over at me was worth seeing. She merely replied, however, that she supposed all our " highest aspirations," with an indescribable accent to which Mrs. Bland was safely deaf, - if good ones, would be realized; and added,. laughing, that Swedenborg said that the babies in heaven who outnumber the grown people -will be given into the charge of those women especially fond of them. " Swedenborg is s-Iggestive, even if you can't accept what seem to the uninitiated to be his

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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