Devereux.
For many weeks poor little Kezia looked very unhappy. Her blithe
smiles were gone, her eyes filled with tears whenever she was
reminded of her friend, she walked to school alone, she did not join
the sports of the other children, but she kept close to the side of
Mrs. Eden, and seemed to have no pleasure but with her, or in nursing
her little sister, who, two Sundays after the funeral, was christened
by the name of Agnes.
It was agreed by Mr. Mohun and Lilias that the grave of the little
girl should be marked by a stone cross, thus inscribed
'AGNES EDEN,
April 8th, 1846,
Aged 7 years.
"He shall gather the lambs in His arms."'
CHAPTER XVIII: DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE
'Truly the tender mercies of the weak,
As of the wicked, are but cruel.'
And how did Lilias show that she had been truly benefited by her
sorrows? Did she fall back into her habits of self-indulgence, or
did she run into ill-directed activity, selfish as her indolence,
because only gratifying the passion of the moment?
Those who lived with her saw but little change; kind-hearted and
generous she had ever been, and many had been her good impulses, so
that while she daily became more steady in well-doing, and exerting
herself on principle, no one remarked it, and no one entered into the
struggles which it cost her to tame her impetuosity, or force herself
to do what was disagreeable to herself, and might offend Emily.
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