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Children’s Little Story-book. 9
sitting on a stool, at the feet of her old aunt, when she
used to feel so happy; but then she would remember
that happiness had already forsaken her in her married
life, and big tears would trickle down her cheeks,
Suddenly she lit upon a page in the book where it
said :
‘< If fate is severe in the trials of life,
Call to mind that with faith and true love,
Howe’er great the toil of the troublous strife,
If not here, we find sure joy above.”
“Yes, yes, I feel it to be so,” she softly whispered,
and smiled through her tears. When she retired to
rest she put the little book under her pillow, and that
night she had happy and beautiful dreams.
One day the merchant came home, looking very
pale. He usually locked himself in his room when he
was in a bad humour, but now he remained sitting in
the parlour, covering his face with his hands.
Mary took heart, and went to him: “ Adolphus,
do tell me this once, what it is makes you so
sad |”
“T can no longer conceal it from you,” he answered,
quite crushed in spirit, ‘““we are ruined! Nothing
remains of our old fortune. Nothing! Do you un-
derstand ?”
Mary sank down in a chair and cried bitterly;
but when her eyes rested upon Adolphus she for-
got her own troubles, in trying to comfort her
husband.
Shortly after this the young couple had to leave
their splendid house in the fashionable part of the
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