"
"Do you fear that uncle will object to your marriage with Richard?"
"No; he is very fond of Richard, and very proud of him. Yesterday he
made me notice now strongly Richard resembled Colonel Alfred Hallam,
who was the cavalier hero of our family. And the likeness is
wonderful."
"Has money any thing to do with it?"
"Nothing."
"Parting with Richard?"
"I think so--the feeling is one of a fear of long or final separation--
a shadow like an abyss which neither my love nor my hope can cross.
I find that I cannot follow out any dream or plan which includes
Richard; my soul stumbles in all such efforts as if it was blind. Now
is there any promise for an uncertain condition like this?"
"Yes, dear, there is a promise with a blessing added to it. 'I will
bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths
that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and
crooked things straight.'" Isa. xlii, 16.
"Dear Phyllis, what a little comforter you are! I will be happy.
Indeed, I have reason, for I never dreamed of a lover like Richard--and
he says it was the merest accident that brought you to Europe this
summer."
"Did Richard say 'accident?' Do you know, Elizabeth, I think what men
call 'accident' is really God's own part--his special arrangement or
interposition.
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