Should She Have Left Him? — page 251: what you’re looking at

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338 SHOULD SHE HAWE LEFT MIM? desire to be restored to her husband. Perhaps in the desire, which found place in these self-commun- ings, there was emulation of Mrs. Trevor-Allen. | do not believe it, rather I think it was the direct outcome of the resolves she had made over the pure face of the babe she was crooning to. Her heart was full of pity for the unfortunate boy whose mere existence was the cause of so much trouble, and who stood in the way of a reconciliation of Mr. and Mrs. Adams. So deep and absorbing were her meditations on this point that she forgot to croon and to rock. With a hand resting on the cradle and a far-away look in her eyes, she sat motionless a long time. By and by there came upon her face an expression that was saintlike and holy. The babe, missing the croon and the motion, turned uneasily, and the young mother, lifting it from its cradle, and cuddling it in her arms, covered its face with her own and breathed into its ears another vow. And that was the fourth sacrament of her life—a sacrament which in its influence upon her was ennobling and revolutionary. There was a step in the hall and a light rap at the door. Her husband, returning from his mission, was seeking her. With her babe in her arms she admitted him herself, and, at the threshold, met him with a kiss so tender and so clinging that he won- dered at it. Tears were in her eyes; he lifted her face to him. She smiled. April sunshine through a shower. ~ na. GOMMGIOO cS (GO)