XIV.
AUNT PATTY.
ut Maggie and Bessie, especially the former, were quite determined not to be consoled. They thought such a terrible disappointment deserved to be sorrowed over for some time to come, and sat with tearful faces and a very mournful manner, quite unable to do anything but grieve.
"I hope I shall have strength to bear it, but I don't know," said Maggie, with her pocket-handkerchief to her eyes.
Mamma told her that the way to bear a trial was not to sit fretting over it and thinking how bad it was, but to look at its bright side, and see what good we or others might gain from it.
"But this has no bright side; has it, mamma?" asked Bessie.