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I looked long and tenderly on this perfect ideal of a "Sleeping Beauty," and then thought I would draw closer and see if I could kiss her without awaking her I advanced a few steps into the room-- when suddenly I was stopped Within about a yard's distance from the bed a SOMETHING opposed orously, but in vain! I could step backward, and that was all Between , and absolutely i but the softly-shaded rooure offriend Two steps, and I could have touched her; but those two steps I was forcibly prevented froh a deep ocean had rolled between her and e occurrence--I felt sure it had so to do with her spiritual life and sy , who lay so close toher slu my own apart and studying the parchhts I resolved to lock up these preciousto sleep I remembered to kneel down and offer up praise and honour, with a loving and believing heart, to that Supreme Glory, of which I had been limpse And as I knelt, absorbed and happy, I heard, like a soft echo falling through the silence of h which these words floated towards ive I unto you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you!"