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SKETCHES. 3438
day I saw uty father enter my mother’s room, laying down
before her a present, which gave her great pleasure. She
took hold of his hand and kissed it, and words and looks
of love passed between them. Never shall I forget the
sensation of happiness which filled my soul, where I stood
alone in a corner of the room, playing with my doll. It was
as if heaven had lighted upon my heart. I stood silent,
overwhelmed with the power of this sensation, when the
eyes of my parents discovered mie. “You blush so pret-
tily, little one!” said my mother, tenderly, and my father
came and laid his hand gently upon my head. Never shall
I forget this.
Something of this first sensation I experience still, when
I witness the happiness of husband and wife some distance
beyond the honey-moon.
Ellina was very young when, for the first time in her
new home, she beheld the “bridal-lights on the height.”
Many years had rolled past since, aud Ellina was now no
longer young. She was now the mother of seven boys.
Serious illness, many cares, much work of all kinds, and
narrow circunstauces, had wrought a great change in her
—inwardly as well as outwardly. But she was still a
pleasing woman, though the bloom of her youth was gone;
and her soul —that soul which had foreboded so much: that
is great and beautiful in life, which believed that it would
progress from one light to another, until the whole world
and her own heart, her own life, should stand glorified in
radiant light — had said farewell to all its hopes, one by
oue, had said farewell to all its dawning thoughts, until it ‘
had spun itself round by innumerable threads into the web
of her domestic duties and cares, which were renewed
every day, like the beating of the waves upon the rocks,
like the revolving shadows of the light-house, like the deep-
drawn sighs of the autumn wind. And Ellina faithfully
spun her thread, faithfully fulfilled her duties. But happy
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