The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

20 The Gates Ajar. Yet he came under a strict sense of duty, and in the kindness of all the heart he has! I know, or I ought to know, that he is a good man, - far better in the sight of God to-night, I do not doubt, than I am. But it hurts,-it cuts,-that thing which he said as he went out; because I suppose it must be true; because it seems to me greater than I can bear to have it true. Roy, away in that dreadful Heaven, can have no thought of me, cannot remember how I loved him, how he left me all alone. The singing and the worshipping must take up all his time. God wants it all. He is a "Jealous God." I am nothing any more to Roy. March 2. And once I was much, —very much to him! His Mamie, his poor Queen Mamie,-dearer, he used to say, than all the world to him, - I don't see how he can like it so well up there as to forget her. Though Roy was a very good boy. But this poor, wicked little Mamie, — why, I fall to pitying her as if she were some one else, and wish that some one would cry over her a little. I can't cry. Roy used to say a thing,- I have not the

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