visit her to-day, as she expected a visit at the castle from the Court
Residence. No friendly word--no news of her health--only at the close, a
postscript: "The Hofrath will be here to-morrow and the next day."
Here were two days torn out at once from the book of life. If they could
only be completely obliterated--but no, they hang over me like the leaden
roof of a prison. They must be lived. I could not give them away as a
charity to king or beggar, who would gladly have sat two days longer upon
his throne, or on his stone at the church door. I remained in this
abstraction for a long time; but then I thought of my morning prayer, and
how I said to myself there was no greater unbelief than despondency--how
the smallest and greatest in life are part of one great divine plan, to
which we must submit, however hard it may be. Like a rider who sees a
precipice before him, I drew in the reins. "Be it so, since it must be!"
I cried out; "but God's earth is not the place for complaints and
lamentations. Is it not a happiness to hold in my hand these lines which
she has written? and is not the hope of seeing her again in a short time
a greater bliss than I have ever deserved? 'Always keep the head above
water,' say all good life-swimmers. As well sink at once as allow the
water to run into your eyes and throat." If it is hard for us, amid
these little ills of life, to keep God's providence continually in view,
and if we hesitate, perhaps rightly, in every struggle, to step out of
the common-places of life into the presence of the divine, then life
ought to appear, to us at least, an art, if not a duty. What is more
disagreeable than the child who behaves ungovernably and grows dejected
and angry at every little loss and pain? On the other hand, nothing is
more beautiful than the child in whose tearful eyes the sunshine of joy
and innocence soon beams again, like the flower, which quivers and
trembles in the spring shower, and soon after blossoms and exhales its
fragrance, as the
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Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and womens rights advocate. The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated at home by family and tutors. She grew up with a love of books and was financially independent enough to devote herself to writing.
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