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Catherine grown older, a sequel to Catherine Hamilton, by M.F.S.
Catherine grown older a sequel to Catherine Hamilton by MFS Author:Mary Seymour 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: Chapter III. it was the best thing Catherine could have done; perhaps it was a more certain way of getting forgiveness than any long explanations or entr... more »eaties. At any rate, before five minutes were gone, the two girls sat hand-in-hand, as if they had been old friends, while Cathy's tears were nearly all dried up, and she only dropped a few at intervals in their conversation. Marion Lindsay did not want to hear what she had said and thought. It was enough for her to feel that whatever animosity there had been was ended now; and so, in spite of Catherine's repeated efforts to tell the extent of her long unkindness, she persisted in speaking of other things, and in a very short time had succeeded so completely in changing the subject, that her visitor was talking as brightly as was her custom. " And Marion—I may call you so, may I not ?—do you really like to go and be a Sister of Mercy ? Of course it is very good and beautiful, and all that; but I should be so dreadfully afraid of getting tired of it—I should indeed. You see I have been at school at a convent, and I was very happy there, and the nuns were such dear good creatures; but I never did think I should like to be one of them, that is, not till I begin to get old." Marion smiled slightly. It was not very easy to speak of herself and the life she longed for, still she made an effort to return Catherine's confidence, and said— " I do really wish with all my heart to enter religion. It has been part of my life as long as I can remember anything. No, I am not afraid of getting tired of it; " and such an expression of trust and hope rested on thequiet face, that Catherine afterwards declared to Mary Leslie that she looked " like an angel." " I could not get tired of being with our Lord always, when I know it i...« less