Lady-Bird Volume 2; A Tale (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...made after her last interview with him were confirmed; and when she recovered from the indisposition which had followed that severe shock, all the listlessness of her manner had disappeared, and an expression of stern endurance and energetic self-reliance had taken its place. " No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels; No cure for such, till God who makes them heals. And thou, sad sufferer, under nameless ill. That yields not to the touch of human skill, To thee the dayspring, and the blaze of noon, The purple evening, and resplendent moon Shine not; or undesired, or hated shine, Seen through the medium of a cloud like thine. Yet seek Him, in His favour life is found; All bliss beside a shadow or a cloud; Then Heaven eclipsed so long, and this dull earth, Shall seem to start into a second birth." Cowrna. "Never did thine eye Look on me but in glistening tenderness: Never did thy voice But in afl'ection's deepest music speak; Never was thine heart Aught but the kludliest sheltering home to mine." Mas. Ilnnums. WHAT is called the season was beginning again; and spring was showing its sickly and premature verdure in the squares and the gardens of London. On a warm April day--a rare thing and a beautiful--when a few soft showers had washed. ofi' the houses and the trees some of the accumulated dust of March, Maurice was slowly walking back from the railway-station, where he had accompanied his stepmother and Mary, who were returning to the country. Mrs. Redmond's health had suffered so much from the winter spent in London, that the change had been considered absolutely necessary for her; and now that Maurice was married, there seemed no reason for their remaining in town. Gertrude had applied herself with unwearied pa...