The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1022, July 29, 1899

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1022, July 29, 1899

THE ANGEL OF PROMISE! THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. ABOUT PERGOLAS, AND MISS JEKYLLS WOOD AND GARDEN. OUR PUZZLE POEMS: AN ACCIDENTAL CYCLE. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW. THE COURTSHIP OF CATHERINE WEST. SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. WILL SHE GROW OUT OF IT? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OUR NEW PUZZLE POEM. ucy could not honestly say to Miss Latimer that she had enjoyed herself at the Brands dinner, but she could frankly say that Miss Latimer had been right, and that her visit had done her good. For though she had not returned refreshed and re-invigorated, yet she felt a wonderful thankfulness to be once more enfolded in her own home-life. Somehow, too, she could see her own trials in a truer and brighter light. She herself might indeed be worn and nervous, but there was good reason, and a grand purpose to be fulfilled by the labours and endurance which made her so. Florence seemed not less worn and nervous, and why? For no end but vanity and irritating emulation. There floated through Lucys mind some lines she had learned in childhood: But was rubbing really better than rusting, if it were but a voluntary and needless friction? Lucy realised now that the deeper agonies and anxieties and the more strenuous efforts of the past few months had given her new standpoints, and had separated her from much which she would once have tolerated without question. She remembered having read the utterance of a certain writer, somewhat to this effectI have been through the furnace, and I have passed out too scorched to mingle freely with those who are not even singed. Lucy could not quite see the matter in that aspect. Rather she would have expressed herselfI have been out on Gods wolds, under His open sky with its storms and its starlight, and I cannot again relish close, artificially-lit rooms, sickly with manufactured perfumes. Oh, when once Charlie was at home again, how much they would have to be thankful for, in their life grown at once wider and deeper! What a new meaning was given to the old words, The Lord drew me out of many waters.... He brought me forth also into a large place. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 62089
Author: Various
Release Date: May 10, 2020
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