They act no double part;

Honor’s written on their face,

And Duty in their heart.”

Those who lived at a distance began to depart, soon after these ceremonies, but the festivities were kept up by others for an hour longer. Jessie, on examining her porte-monnaie, found within it ten bright golden dollars,—a gift as timely, appropriate and acceptable to her, in her straitened circumstances, as it was well deserved on her part, and honorable to those who bestowed it.

Tears of gratitude and joy moistened Jessie’s eyes, long after every other eye under the roof was closed in slumber; and as her sleepless and busy thoughts lingered around the exciting scenes of the day and evening, ever and anon darting back over the eventful months that were past, or flitting forward into the unknown future, she felt that she had reached a point where it was meet that she should “thank God and take courage.”

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