The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

220 The Gates Ajas. It will be a peaceful day for me if I can ever quite agree with your methods of reasoning. But I must think these things over. I thank you once more for coming. Your sympathy is grateful to me." Just as she closed the door he called her back. "See," he said, with a saddened smile. "At least I shall never preach this again. It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done." He held up before her a mass of old blue manuscript, and threw it, as he spoke, upon the embers left in his grate. It smoked and blazed up and burned out. It was that sermon on heaven of which there is an abstract in this journal. o2th. Aunt Winifred hired Mr. Tripp's gray this afternoon, and drove to East Homer on some unexplained errand. She did not invite me to go with her, and Faith, though she teased impressively, was left at home. Her mother was gone till late, - so late that I had begun to be anxious about her, and heard through the dark the first sound of the buggy wheels, with

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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