the time we last walked together by the streamlet that flows
from the rock spring?"

"I do."

"I enjoyed more happiness in that walk than I have enjoyed in the
possession of all my wealth."

"I should be ungrateful if I were to say that I have not been happy;
though I have had many trials. I learned long ago not to look for
happiness here, but to prepare for it hereafter."

"You have been what men call poor; but you have been far richer than I
have been. You have had treasures of the heart. You did not marry till
you had a heart which you loved as Margaret Gray was capable of loving;
and you have a noble boy."

"Richard Clifton is still, in part at least, what he once was!"

"You believed me changed into stone, or a bale of goods?"

"I certainly believed you changed. I supposed that you had taught your
heart to love that alone which you had made the chief object of your
pursuit."

"I tried to do so. I tried to persuade myself that I had done so. I
habitually used language which implied I had succeeded. I deceived
others; I could not deceive myself. I felt that I was not happy, despite
all my efforts to persuade myself that I was. I then tried to persuade
myself that I was not less happy than others. I have been acting a part
ever since I left this place. I have been unhappy, and I deserved to be
unhappy."

"God makes abundant provision for the happiness of his creatures."

"For time and for eternity. I have failed to avail myself of that made
for the former; I hope I shall not fail in respect to the latter. And
yet what right have I, who have caused much unhappiness and so little
happiness to others, to expect it hereafter?"

"None of us can enter heaven of right, but through mercy and the merits
of another."

"I wish your son had come with you. I wish to see him and Susan
together, and to charge them to hold the treasures of the heart in
higher estimation than all other treasures. I am sure they will do so.
It is a great comfort to me to know that my beloved Susan is to marry
the son of Margaret Gray."

"Horace will come and see you to-morrow," said she, rising and extending
her trembling hand. "I must not stay longer."

"Do not go yet."

"You are becoming exhausted."

"Read to me," pointing to the book.

She took the book and turned to a suitable portion.

"Sit where I can see your countenance, if you please."

She could not refuse his request. He gazed upon her as she read, in
tones which c