Ruby's Reward — page 103: what you’re looking at

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gf EE in summer, ‘ifone can have “pleasant com- pany,’ ** You ave fond of society, Miss Gordon.” Vea, Iam; TJ am free to confess it,” Ruby answered, smiling. ‘I love life, sparkle, gaiety, and I believe I am fitted for society. I imagine that my mission lies in the great busy wold where I live.” ‘Your mission 7 questioned Walter, in surprise The idea af this bright winsome girl— who scemed made only for sunshine and pleasaie—having a ‘ mission” in life, had never oceurred to him, “Yes; don't you think that everybody has a mission, My Richardson’ Ruby asked, lifting a pair of very earnest eyes to his face. ‘*T suppose that every one ought to have some aim or purpose in life,” he replied, masingly, ‘Yes, indeed; everybody ought,” she said, decidedly. ** But that isa little dif- ferent from what Tmean. One can have an ‘aim and purpose’ in life, and yet be wholly scHish, My idea is, that everyone has heen appointed some especial work to do outside of one's self, and it we neglect to do it, we miss the chief purpose for which we were put into the warld. Have you ever thought of it, ?” “ Not exactly in that way,” Walter re- plied, “J have always felt that I wanted to make the most of myself, mentally and morally, and to educate myself for that porition to which EF was best adapted and where F coulct do the most good, tomicbooks.com