"I think you do care for me, Faith, if you only knew it!" said he, half sadly and very wistfully, as they parted.
"I do care, very much," Faith answered, simply and earnestly. "I never can help caring. It is only that I am afraid I care so differently from you!"
She was nearer loving him at that moment, than she had ever been.
Who shall attempt to bring into accord the seeming contradictions of a woman's heart?
CHAPTER XXV.
A GAME AT CHESS.
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"Life's burdens fall, its discords cease, I lapse into the glad release Of nature's own exceeding peace." Whittier |
"I don't see," said Aunt Faith, "why the child can't come to me, Henderson, while you and Elizabeth are away. I don't believe in putting yourself under obligations to people till you're sure they're going to be something to you. Things don't always turn out according to the Almanac."