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"She has profaned the sacred name of Friend

And worn it to vileness"

"Ah, wretched and too solitary he

Who loves not his own co to the maid, and woo'd her"

Life would be but a mean abode for men and women if they could not open

the s of their souls and look beyond it During the weeks which

iie she felt this

truth, though she did not define the feeling to herself She only realized

the co from the fretful presence of her aunt to the

contemplative, passionless serenity of the Word of God But even this was

an offence "What are you doing at a', Maggie?" was the certain inquiry if

she went to the quiet of her own roo the Book a wee, Aunt Janet"

The co to Janet's teude ken, you need to read it" Again it

would be, "Havers! Hoo can the like o' you understand it, and no