Kate Temple's Mate, by the Author of 'Clary's Confirmation' (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...Here's the water coming in under the door. We must get upstairs, or we shall both be drowned " Sal jumped up quickly, exclaiming, "Nonsense, the water can never have got up here." "It has, I tell you. Look " Sal looked, and her first impulse was to seize her child, while Kate cautiously opened the door. The water was up to their ankles on the landing, but they waded through it and climbed wearily up the stairs, where they sought refuge in one of the comfortless rooms which had lately been deserted. "I believe we shall either drown or starve," said Sal, mournfully, sitting down on the floor with her child on her lap. "You and I, Kate, and the little one, we shall all be put in the same grave; but she won't feel anything more. Oh, if I could but think that I was going where she has gone, I shouldn't mind so much; but I shall never see my little lamb again." "Why shouldn't you?" said Kate, putting down the candle and struggling to speak calmly, though her teeth were chattering with cold and fear. "How can I expect to go to God when I've left Him alone all my life through? I learned what was right in the Sunday school, but I've never minded it, and now it's too late." "If Mr. Aston was here, maybe he'd tell you it wasn't too late." "Who's Mr. Aston?" "The clergyman who speaks at the mission room. I've been going there lately, Sal." "Oh, how I wish I had been to some good place; but I never have since I married. If I had only gone but once, I might have heard something that would have turned me. Did you, Kate?" "Yes," replied Kate, feeling the comfort of her own words. "I learned there to see how bad I'd been all my life, but...