“And yet you forsook me first, Norman, and, absorbed in your play, lost the first views of the Mississippi. You said there was a want with children which children alone could supply—a demand of the social nature.”
“I know it, mother; I know that I said so, and I enjoyed those merry games very much; but after all this has been the happiest time.”
CHAPTER XI.
A SUNDAY IN DUBUQUE.
“O day most calm, most bright,
The fruit of this, the next world’s bud;
The indorsement of supreme delight,
Writ by a Friend and with his blood;
The couch of time; care’s balm and bay;
The week were dark, but for thy light:
Thy torch doth show the way.”