Stella Rosevelt — page 216: what you’re looking at

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~ 210 STAR’S LETERMINATION. care of me and shield me until I graduate, for without you to help me bear the responsibility, I should nct dare to take such a step.” Mr. Rosevelt smiled again. ‘You try to make the obligation appear all your own; but I.share it, nevertheless; and I think you and I will be far hap- plier away from the unpleasant influences which have surrounded us during the past year. Jam quite anticipating the change, I assure you. Now you must gotorest. You look more like a ghost than a star just now; and my heart has been deeply pained to-night for the suffering that you have had to endure; but I believe it will yet be made up to you in some way,’ he concluded, with grave thoughtfulness. He sat regarding her earnestly fora few moments. Then he said, while his eyes were fixed questioningly on her face: ‘‘This is a different kind of a storm, child, from the one which you and I passed through at sea. Your faith was strong then; you were not afraid to die; how is it now? Do you believe your God rules this kind of a storm also?” There was a skeptical smile on the old man’s lips, and a bitterness in his tone as he asked this, which filled the young girls heart with remorse. She looked up at him with a startled glance, while her pained face almost instantly relaxed into an expression of trustfulness and peace. ‘‘Uncle Jacob,” she said, with a solemn sweetness which impressed him deeply, ‘‘you could not have said anything for which I should thank you more—you have recalled me to myself. I should not have forgotten for a moment that God rules everywhere and over everything. Yes, I dedzeve He knows best, even though I cannot understand why I must suffer this bitter trial.” The old man sighed deeply, and his face was very grave. Gomicbooks (E(e)