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She talked with a new fervour to the children of the birds and flowers, and all the fair things they loved, as the gifts of their Father in Heaven; and when she gathered thee pictured Bible, it was to the Gospel that she turned as she strove to draw their souls to the appreciation of the Redeehtful brow that the child was taking it in, though differently from Amy, anted to kiss the picture, while Letty asked those babyish material questions about Heaven that puzzle wiser heads than Aurelia's to answer

So full was she of the thought, that she forgot her sense of soe and unaccountable in Mr Bela to rerave and kindly courteous as ever; and he soon led her to pour forth all her ireat part of the ser with earnestness and emotion He was not stirred in the sa in his pensive ht Love is life The misfortune is e stake our all on one love alone, and thatdeath!"

"But there is never-failing love, and new life that never dies!" cried Aurelia, almost transported out of herself

"May you ever keep hold of both unobscured, my sweet child," he returned, with a sadness that repressed and drove her back into herself again, feeling far too childish and unworthy to help hi heart yearned over him in his desolation, and her soul was full of supplication for him