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We need a larger house
Posted by Bertram John
MAY 24.-I celebrated my little Una's third birthday by presenting her with a new brother. Both the children welcomed him with delight that was itself compensation enough for all it cost me to get up such a celebration. Martha takes a most prosaic view of this proceeding, in which she detects malice ...
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It may make no vital difference to them
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"What do you think," I asked, "about her last days on earth? Was there really any preparation for death? "These scenes are very painful," he returned fake oakley sport sunglasses. "Of course there is but one real preparation for Christian dying, and that is Christian living." "But the sick-room of...
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I don't know how
Posted by Bertram John
JAN. 20.-I have seen poor Amelia once more knockoff oakleys, and perhaps for the last time. She has failed rapidly of late, and Ernest says may drop away at almost any time. When I went in she took me by the hand, and with great difficulty, and at intervals said something like this: "I have made u...
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I did not know what to say or what to do
Posted by Bertram John
DECEMBER.-Amelia was so determined to see me that Ernest thought it best for me to go. I found her looking very feeble. "Oh, Katy," she began at once replica oakley sunglasses," do make the doctor say that I shall get well!" "I wish he could say so with truth," I answered. "Dear Amelia, try to thi...
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She has had a hemorrhage
Posted by Bertram John
NOVEMBER. THIS morning Ernest received an early summons to Amelia. I got out of all manner of patience with him because he would take his bath and eat his breakfast before he went, and should have driven any one else distracted by my hurry and flurry. "She has had a hemorrhage!" I cried. "Do, Erne...
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Thus communing with myself
Posted by Bertram John
She took her leave.. I looked at her rich dress as she gathered it about her and swept away, and recalled all her empty, frivolous talk with contempt. She and Ch---, her husband, I mean fake oakley dart sunglasses, are well matched. They need their money, and their palaces and their fine clothes an...
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You must excuse me this morning
Posted by Bertram John
JAN. 2.~James means to study theology as well as medicine, it seems. That will keep him with us for some years. Oh, is it selfish to take this view of it? Alas, the spirit is willing to have him go, but the flesh is weak fake oakley c six sunglasses, and cries out. OCT. 22.-Amelia came to see me to...
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I want you to read this before it goes
Posted by Bertram John
"You are responsible for that child's soul;" he said; "you have more influence over him than all the world beside." "I know it," I said, "and sometimes I feel ready to sink when I think of the great work God has intrusted to me. But my poor child will learn that he is a sinner only too soon, and be...
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There can't be life without growth
Posted by Bertram John
"And do you really think then, that perhaps I am growing, though unconsciously ?" "I know you are, dear child. There can't be life without growth." This comforted me. I came home, praying all the way, and striving to commit myself entirely to Him in whose school I sit as learner. Oh, that I were a...
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I have a great many little trials
Posted by Bertram John
JANUARY 1, 1842 I MEAN to resume my journal, and be more faithful to it this year fake oakley gascan sunglasses. How many precious things, said by dear Mrs. Campbell and others, are lost forever, because I did not record them at the time! I have seen her to-day. At Ernest's suggestion I have let S...