The Yankee Champion — page 177: what you’re looking at

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170 THE YANKEE CHAMPION. sew and knit; and you shall be a father to me, and love me as thouzh I were your own child.’’ ‘‘A father?’”’ uttered Walter, as the full meaning of his companion flashed upon him. “Yes,” frankly and unsuspectingly returned Helen; ‘‘you will love me as a child, and then I can look up to you for counsel and advice.”’ ‘‘And in what can 1 advise you?—in what counsel you?’’ ae anything that will make me better and hap- pier.”’ ‘And do you think I could lead you ina path more pure than that in which you already tread?”’ “Is not happiness conducive to purer thoughts and feelings?’’ asked the fair girl, with simple grace and expression. ‘“‘Can one be so pure in all the im- pulses of the heart, when that heart is crushed by wrong and oppression? Will there not be at times feelings and wishes—sudden risings of passionate despondency—which are not pure in the sight of God?”’ : ‘Perhaps you are right, Helen.” ‘“T thank you,’’ said the girl, with a glowing coun- tenance. ‘‘And then there would be many thirgs that you could teach me that I do not know now— and knowledge leads to purity.’”’ “And do you think you would be happy to come and live with me?”’ “Yes, on, yes.”’ ‘But suppose I could find some kind man who would take you now—who would love you and teaeh ~ you—some one who is older and more experienced than Iam; you would be happy then?” ‘“No, no.”