The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

60 The Gates Ajar. women in red calico who had been "slickin up inside," they said; went in by the fire, - it was really a pleasant fire, —and, as soon as they had left us alone, I climbed into John's lap, and, with both arms around his neck, told him that I knew we should be very happy. And I said —" "Said what?" She blushed a little, like a girl. "I believe I said I should be happy in Patagonia, - with him. I made him laugh at last, and say that my face and words were like a beautiful prophecy. And, Mary, if they were, it was beautifully fulfilled. In the roughest times, -times of ragged clothes and empty flour-barrels, of weakness and sickness and quack doctors, of cold and discouragement, of prairie fires and guerillas, -from trouble to trouble, from year's end to year's end, we were happy together, we two. As long as we could have each other, and as long as we could be about our Master's business, we felt as if we did not dare to ask for anything more, lest it should seem that we were ungrateful for such wealth of mercy." It would take too long to write out here the half that she told me, though I wish I could,

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