Cousin Silas's eldest daughter, now
an intelligent girl of eighteen, stays with my mother, as an assistant
companion; and the summer gathering of friends from the dusty city is
now held at Uncle Nathan's farm-house instead of my mother's old home at
Elmwood.
CHAPTER XXXI.
Some of my readers may inquire what kind of a husband my old school-mate
Charley Gray made; some will be ready to suppose that his young and
light-hearted wife at once worked a great and wonderful change in his
disposition; others, that failing in her endeavors to do so, she became
disappointed, sorrowing and unhappy. Neither of these conclusions is
entirely correct. Flora did not all at once change her husband into a
genial and social being; but her affectionate devotion inspired a
confidence in her which gradually extended to others, and has now
strength to say to the tumultuous waves of jealous passion "Thus far
shalt thou come, and no further," and I am happy to say that my sister's
cheerful and happy countenance does not indicate a sorrowful and
disappointed heart.
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