Both pair of eyes followed her as she left the room, and then met with perfect understanding.
"Will you give your child to me, Mrs. Rossitur?" said the gentleman.
"With all my heart!" exclaimed Mrs. Rossitur, bursting into tears "even if I were left alone entirely "
Her agitation was uncontrolled for a minute; and then she said, with feeling seemingly too strong to be kept in
"If I were only sure of meeting her in heaven, I could be content to be without her till then!"
"What is in the way, my dear Madam?" said Mr. Carleton, with a gentle sympathy that touched the very spring he meant it should. Mrs. Rossitur waited a minute, but it was only till tears would let her speak, and then said like a child
"Oh, it is all darkness!"
"Except this," said he, gently and clearly, "that Jesus Christ is a sun and a shield; and those that put themselves at His feet are safe from all fear, and they who go to Him for light shall complain of darkness no more."
"But I do not know how "
"Ask Him, and He will tell you."