"And though you spoke scornful of money, it is a good thing; and the girl Julius marries will be a rich woman. Eh? What?"
"Perhaps; but it is the happiness and not the riches of her child that is a good mother's reward, and a good father's too. Eh, William?"
"Certainly, Alice, certainly." But his unspoken reflection was, "women are that short sighted, they cannot put up with a small evil to prevent a big one."
He had forgotten that "the wise One" and the "Counsellor" thought one day's joys and sorrows "sufficient" for the heart to bear.
CHAPTER IV.
THUS RUNS THE WORLD AWAY.
"But we mortals
Planted so lowly, with death to bless us,
Sorrow no longer."
"Our choices are our destiny. Nothing is ours that our choices
have not made ours."