The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 63 "So there in the sunset and the moonrise, we two alone together, he baptized her, and we gave our little girl to God." When she had said this, she rose and went over to the window, and stood with her face from me. By and by, "It was the fourteenth," she said, as if musing to herself, - "the fourteenth of June." I remember now that Uncle Forceythe died on the fourteenth of June. It may have been that the words of that baptismal blessing were the last that they heard, either child or mother. May io. It has been a pleasant day; the air shines like transparent gold; the wind sweeps like somebody's strong arms over the flowers, and gathers up a crowd of perfumes that wander up and down about one. The church bells have rung out like silver all day. Those bells - especially the Second Advent at the further end of the village —are positively ghastly when it rains. Aunt Winifred was dressed bright and early for church. I, in morning dress and slippers, sighed and demurred. "Auntie, doyou expect to hear anything new?"

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