Flossy, Dr. Dennis is
one of the most patient and long-suffering of men, but it is very hard
for him to be patient with poor Gracie; harder than it is for me;
first, because I know by personal experience just what a turbulent
young creature a miss of seventeen or eighteen can be, and secondly,
because it is upon me her displeasure falls most heavily, and that
naturally he resents.
"Why am I writing all this to you? I don't, know, childie, really, save
that I remember what a curious way you have of telling Jesus all about
your friends and their trials, and I remember with great comfort that
you are my friend. Don't imagine me as miserable; I can never be that so
long as Christ is the present Helper that he is to me now; and you do
not need to be told that I daily thank him for giving me my husband.
But I think you will understand better than many would how earnestly
I desire to fill the place of mother, to my bright young motherless
Gracie, with her dangerous beauty and her dangerous talents and her
capacity for being miserable. Oh, I want to do more than my duty; I
want to love her with all my heart, and to have her love me. If it were
not for that man, who always hated me, and who, I believe in my heart,
has sought her out and is pressing his attentions upon her because he
sees a possibility of stinging me through her, I might hope to fill the
place in her heart that I thought I could.
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