"Wonderful night!Sweet be thy rest to the weary!Making the dull heart and drearyLaugh with a dream of delight.Wonderful, wonderful night!"
"Wonderful night!Sweet be thy rest to the weary!Making the dull heart and drearyLaugh with a dream of delight.Wonderful, wonderful night!"
"Wonderful night!Sweet be thy rest to the weary!Making the dull heart and drearyLaugh with a dream of delight.Wonderful, wonderful night!"
"Wonderful night!
Sweet be thy rest to the weary!
Making the dull heart and dreary
Laugh with a dream of delight.
Wonderful, wonderful night!"
And then a tender silence fell over them. They clasped each other's hands softly, and the breaths had a strangled sound. Granny alive, Joe raised from the dead, Kit some day to be a famous musician!
Joe crept up to Granny, and kissed her wrinkled face. Somehow it seemed as if the furrows began to fill out.
"Oh," he said huskily, "there's nothing in the world so wonderful, nor so sweet, nor so precious as 'The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe!' When I think of her love, her patient toil, her many cares, andthe untiring devotion with which she has labored for us all, I feel that we can never, never repay her. O Granny!"
"I've been glad to have you all, God knows. There wasn't one too many."
Not one of the loving arms that encircled her could have been spared. There she sat enthroned, a prouder woman to-night, poor old Granny Kenneth, than many a duchess in a blaze of diamonds. Fair Florence; laughing Joe, with his great, warm heart; sweet, tender Hal; racketing Charlie; Kit, with his scalp-lock waving in the breeze; and dear little Dot,—jewels enough for any woman, surely!
Ah, children! love her with the best there is in your fresh young souls. Make the paths smooth for her weary feet, remembering the years she has trudged on the thorny highway of life for your sakes. When the eyes grow dim, bring the brightest in your lives to glorify her way. Cling to her, kiss warmth into the pale lips; for when she has gone to heaven it will seem all too little at the best. True, she will reap her reward there; but it is sweet to have a foretaste of it in your smiles, as well. Dear Granny, who has made toil heroic, and old age lovely, and out of whose simple, every-day existence have blossomed the roses that still render this old world bright and glorious,—Love, Labor, Faith!
THE DOUGLAS NOVELS.
ByMISS AMANDA M. DOUGLAS.
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WHOM KATHIE MARRIED.
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LOST IN A GREAT CITY.
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THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE.
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HOPE MILLS; or, Between Friend and Sweetheart.
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FROM HAND TO MOUTH.
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NELLY KINNARD'S KINGDOM.
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CLAUDIA.
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STEPHEN DANE.
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HOME NOOK; or, the Crown of Duty.
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THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER.
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OUR HELEN.
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Some missing punctuation has been inserted.Page 12 The repeated word "the" has been deletedPage 12 honsysuckle is now honeysucklePage 33 onimous is now ominousPage 141 retty is now prettyPage 156 slighest is now slightestPage 283 "I b-b-leive is now lievePage 340 weren't me is now weren't we