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858 SKETCHES.
pressing her in silent eloquence to his heart, or sitting at
night beside her little crib, hearing her saying her pray-
ers, while from her — he again learns to pray.. Yes, he is
not a whit better than Hercules spinning at the. feet of the
young Omphale. I think that he is even a little worse and
more weak, being fettered by a yet.weaker and more child-
ish being.
Ellina threatens sometimes— and you may guess how
seriously —to send the little girl out of the house to a
boarding - school, as otherwise, “she will be perfectly
spoilt” by her father, and she ought in time to learn to
become “a sensible woman.” The father says nothing to
these threats, but he lays the child in the mother’s arms
and then. embraces them both. He is meanwhile very
anxious for all. the boys to come home during the holidays.
Ellina is no longer pale and suffering. She is a bloom-
ing middle-aged matron, with the calmness of happiness
in her whole being, and she likes to say to young married
women: “When the time of first love is passed, then
comes something better still, something more beautiful ;
then comes the second love, the faithful friendship, which
never changes, which makes every thing bright and peace-
ful. But we ought to manage so that it does come. ‘Then
every thing changes, every thing turns to the best.”
Miss Unready was also changed, metamorphosed into
Mrs. Sheriff Ready. But whether her spinachomania has
also changed, I am not aware.
The eaglets have grown up to be young eagles. When
from their flight over earth’s or thought’s sea they revisit
their eyrie with tales from foreign lands, and with new dis-
coveries in science and art, then much is added to the
wealth within it.
But Bohusliin’s rocks, they stand now as before;
The waves of the Cattegat flow as of yore ;
To-day they roll on
As in centuries gone.
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