Zaidee chatted awhile with Aunt Kate who fancied she understood all the thoughts of the young girl’s heart. It was not strange she should be a little jealous, but she had more gifts to attract the world with, and the pendulum of her parents’ love would swing back presently. Then the child said good-night and went to her white bed, but the sleepiness had gone by and she was wondering about herself.
Would she come to love this strange sister who had been thrust upon her as it were. Truly, she did not know. If she kept the old love of them all, the first love, no one could quite climb up to that place in their hearts and if Marguerite could be content with the second place—that really was hers, she would be sweet and gracious and share honors with her.
Poor child! She did not understand what love really meant; that it was to dole out the overplus of one’s life when one was in the mood, or withhold when one chose, was, as yet, her definition of it. What can an overindulged child know of the grand motives it takes a life-time to learn?
Marguerite looked out on the shining night with its tender hush, with no wind stirring, no sound anywhere. A new life unrolled before her; an illumination and comprehension of the past that would be builded in the years to come. Whatsoever was lovely and of good report was to be the foundation stones of the temple God had bidden her to rear. Would she learn to be lovely in feature and expression from the inward light of the soul—the lamp God had set there?
Yet the new life had brought grander duties than mere self advancement, and Marguerite prayed that she might fulfill them faithfully.
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