A Social Meteor — page 258: what you’re looking at

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248 A SOCIAL METEOR. live? As though there was nobody in the whole wide world whom you ever wished to see again ?”’ “Bless my soul, Miss Georgie, never!’ re- sponded the good woman, in consternation ; ‘what . a dreadful question !” “Can you imagine it ?” Katie shook her head solemnly. “Not unless I had lost my health, and all my friends had gone clean against me,” she answered seriously, “but even then it’s doubtful whether I would really: care about deliberately lying down and dying. ‘There’s an awful lot that’s pleasant and agreeable in this world, Miss Georgie, and I think we ought to enjoy it as well as we can, if only in gratitude to ehe Almighty, who put us here;”’ “But if the Almighty lays burdens upon us so heavy that we can see nothing pleasant in living?” “We mustn’t despair, Miss Georgie. ‘Trials come to all of us at one time or another; but they leave us, too, after awhile, if we’re patient under them,” returned Mrs. Douglass, reprovingly. “If I might make so bold as to ask, though, I would like to know if anything is grieving you, that yen talk so.” “Ves, something is grieving me, Katie, and I shall never get over it.” “Oh, now, Miss Georgie, take heart! You're young, and have so much to be thankful for. CS ‘ Comicboo SO