"
"And you see, then, how even good angels may hev to be varry prudent
about t' blessings they hev on t' road to us. So they come as
surprises. I don't think it's iver well, even wi' oursel's, to blow
a trumpet before any thing we're going to do. After we hev got t' good
thing, after we hev done t' great thing, it'll be a varry good time
to talk about it. Many a night I've thought o' t' words on my little
Wesley tea-pot, and just said 'em softly, down in my heart, 'In God
we trust.' But tonight I hev put a bit o' holly all around it, and
I hev filled it full o' t' freshest greens and flowers I could get,
and I s'all stand boldly up before it, and say out loud--'In God we
trust!'"
CHAPTER X.
"When we have hoped and sought and striven and lost our aim,
then the truth fronts us, beaming out of the darkness."
"Speaking of things remembered, and so sit
Speechless while things forgotten call to us."
"We, who say as we go,
'Strange to think by the way,
Whatever there is to know,
That we shall know one day.'"
"I would tell her every thing."
It was the rector who spoke. He and Richard were sitting before the
study fire; they had been talking long and seriously, and the rector's
eyes were dim and troubled. "Yes, I would tell her every thing.
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