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Brother and sister; or, Margaret's trial. And The two temptations
Brother and sister or Margaret's trial And The two temptations Author:Margaret Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: no darkness at all, but the night is as clear as the day—He through Whose Power alone we can lie down and sleep in safety—was watching over the suffering child, ... more »and guarding her from evil, even when the shadows seemed thickest around her, and the help that was needed He was not slow to grant. CHAPTER IV. Margaret's Education. Margaret awoke in the morning, refreshed, and more disposed to be cheerful and at ease. She remembered, indeed, the " weary hours of gloom" when she had been so "sore afraid;" but now it seemed strange to her that the swinging of the door should have frightened her so much, and the shadows on the wall must, she knew, have been only fancy. She had half a mind to tell Mrs. Jackson about it, and it would have been better if she had done so; but her second thought was to keep it all to herself, and being buried in her mind, the recollection rose up again afterwards when she chanced to lie awake at night, more than it would have done if she had talked of it openly to another person. Perhaps she should tell Alfred when he came home. If he were but here, she would tell him now, she thought; hut then he might laugh at her, as he did one day when she told him a dream she had of something that happened to her in a street in London, how she fancied that a stooping old man was hobbling after her, and how he put out his hand to seize her, and just as he touched her shoulder she shut her eyes, and said a little prayer to herself, and when she looked round, he was gone. Margaret's heart heat a little when she recollected the terror of that dream, and how ashamed she had felt when Alfred called her a great baby for fancying such things, and threatened to tell her cousins. No, Alfred should not hear of this, and when he came home, she should soon forget all about ...« less