Yet the deceiving heart

Will fret against the Lord!

When mirth in anguish ends,

Man dreads the truth to own

That from the Lord all good descends,

Despair from sin alone!

CHAPTER XV.
THE BEAUTIFUL VILLA.

“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”—Prov. xxxi. 20.