"Oh, I see! That's good!"
"Now, let me hear you say your verses for this week, and we'll soon learn them together—you will, faster than I shall."
Robbie went back to fetch his Bible, and soon, as his father said, the six verses which he had learnt separately every day came into one whole, and he could say them off.
He gave a great sigh, and then with a kiss on his father's forehead, he bounded off to play.
But he never forgot that day.
[CHAPTER XV.]
VERA'S CONTENT.
"I COULD be perfectly happy if I could live always in a cottage like that, and look-out on such a view!" sighed Vera, as she and her mother sat one evening on a stile, and looked over into a peaceful field, covered with daisies, and with a pond in front whose deep shadows were now and then broken by snowy ducks swimming across them.
Her mother smiled a little, but did not otherwise answer.
"I get so tired of the houses opposite us!" Vera went on, "And our holiday seems so soon over, and we have to go back to the dull streets and noisy trams. Don't you, mother?"