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His beautiful mistress followed, apparently without know-
ing whither her slave was dragging her, and I saw the
moment approaching when both were to be hurled over
the precipice. I shuddered, and was on the point of cry-
ing out aloud, when I heard the heavenly chorus sound
like thunder through space :—
“ Awake! unhappy one, awake! see thy thralldom, thy
danger. Give liberty and be thyself free. Let the word
whose banner thou carriest, become a truth. Else thou
shalt perish in thy falsehood !”
The light vanished from heaven, and clouds, like floods
of tears, lowered before the throne.
And the heavenly chorus sang :—
“When He turns away His face, then darkness comes
over the nations of the earth. When He takes His spirit
away, then they perish and return again to dust!”
Then all was silent, so silent and hushed as when the
breath is held back in anxious expectation of what is going
to happen.
My heart trembled. It asked: “ Will she be saved and
rise? or will she fall in the sight of the Eternal?” In-
quiringly my looks were turned towards space, seeking her,
but then — my vision vanished.
A VIOLET.
FOUND IN STOCKHOLM IN 1827.
“ Who could ever have expected to find so much virtue,
walking between two milk-pails!” exclaimed my friend, Dr.
S ,on entering my room one warm August evening ;
and, sitting down almost exhausted, he wiped the perspira-
tion from his forehead. I asked for an explanation of these
words, which appeared to me rather extraordinary, when
he related the following story : —
“You must know, my friend, that I have made acquaint-
ance with a person in a house nearly opposite mine —
yes, a nice acquaintance with an old woman, who for more
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