CHAPTER XXII. HORATIO LEIGHTON TAKES A STEP FORWARD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 190, 17 November 1876, Page 6

CHAPTER XXII. HORATIO LEIGHTON TAKES A STEP FORWARD.

fP s - 2™™?. sou^ ht no opportunity to give either the message or the gift till the solemn scene was over. Alice lived but two days after the reception of the sacraments, but the crucifix was never out of her hand; she seldom spoke, and calmly and peacefully fell r2f,! P *? jL e r ba P^ sm f l mnocence. After the burial, Mrs. Benton x £™&t£™X^ ' and reposed ia him the secret ■R fi «w nCailn Cail a° "?fi v?**™?™-" he said sadly, repeating Mrs. ?>?£v t ?S?~ S ut j < ? uM have sympathised I witfi her-yes f think I could have loved her very dearly, but it would have been only the remnants, not the dear first love she g»ve me. Ah 'she is far tetter with that love which is eternal and unchSgeabk-lto .P The m f OUrning m ? her rood ? d orer her dead daughter's journal of the past year, and a voice of gentle wailing, life a dirge through every page. It was an unfathomable mystery to he? £™ when she came to a withered bunch of violets amSg its leavS'

with the initials, J. N., and the date of the last May day, when Dr. Nelson had proposed her Queen of May, and on his knee had presented her with the flowers.