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The day was a black winter day, with a hostly wind Inside the house the silence fell on the heart like a weight The Earl and Countess watched their son's carriage turn from the door, and then looked silently into each other's face The Earl's lips were fir bitterly He ith her to her room, and with all his old charreat loss

At thatmore than she was Hyde had knelt by her sofa, and taken her in his arms, and covered her face with tears and kisses, and she had not been able to oppose a parting so heart-breaking and so final The last tears she was ever to shed dropped fro steps; and the roll of the carriage carrying hi heart She cried out feebly--a pitiful little shrill cry, that she hushed with a sob still an to cast over her suffering soul the balm of prayer, and prostrate with closed eyes, and hands feebly hanging down, Doctor Roslyn found her He did not need to ask a question, he had long known the brave self-sacrifice that was consecrating the child-heart suffering so sharply that day; and he said only-"We are , Annie"

"I know, dear father"

"And you have found before this, that the sorroell borne is full of strange joys--joys, whose long lasting perfurown in heaven and not on earth"

"This is the last sorrow that can come to me, father"

"And rief has its , and the web of life could not be better woven, if only love touched it"

"I have been praying, father"

"Nay, but God Hination God gave you both the resignation and the answer"

"My heart failed me at the last--then I prayed as well as I could"

"And then, visited by the NOT YOURSELF in you, your head was lifted up Do not be frightened at what you want Strive for it little by little All that is bitter in outward things, or in interior things, all that befalls you in the course of a day, is YOUR DAILY BREAD if you will take it from His hand"