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Title: Dwell Deep
or Hilda Thorn's Life Story

Author: Amy Le Feuvre

Release Date: August 5, 2007 [EBook #22243]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: NOTHING WOULD PACIFY HIM UNTIL I GAVE HIM A TUNE.]

DWELL DEEP

OR

_HILDA THORN'S LIFE STORY_

BY

AMY LE FEUVRE

AUTHOR OF "PROBABLE SONS," "TEDDY'S BUTTON,"
"ERIC'S GOOD NEWS," "ODD," ETC.

LONDON

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

MANCHESTER, MADRID, LISBON, BUDAPEST

1896

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A NEW HOME
II TAKING A STAND
III THE REASON WHY
IV AN OPENING FOR WORK
V OPPORTUNITIES
VI ONLY A FRIEND
VII A FRESH ACQUAINTANCE
VIII DRAWN TOGETHER
IX QUIET DAYS
X LONG AGO
XI A DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE
XII A TEST
XIII TAKE HOME
XIV WOOED AND WON
XV A GATHERING CLOUD
XVI DARK DAYS
XVII DAWN
XVIII WEDDED
XIX OLD FRIENDS

DWELL DEEP

CHAPTER I

A NEW HOME

'Meet is it changes should control
Our being, lest we rust in ease.'--_Tennyson._

A golden cornfield in the still sunshine of a warm August afternoon.
In one corner of it, bordering a green lane, a group of shady elms, and
under their shadow a figure of a young girl, who, gazing dreamily
before her, sat leaning her head against an old gnarled trunk in quiet
content. A small-shaped head, with dark curly hair, and a pair of
blue-grey eyes with black curved lashes, these were perhaps her chief
characteristics; more I cannot say, for it is difficult to describe
oneself, and it was I, Hilda Thorn, who was seated there.

It was a beautiful scene before me. Beyond the corn stretched a green
valley, and far in the distance were blue misty hills and moorland. My
soul seemed rested by the sweet stillness around, but from the beauties
of nature my eyes kept reverting to the Bible on my knee, and two words
on the open page were occupying my thoughts--'Dwell deep.'

I had been left an orphan at the age of ten, both