The brave boy or Christian heroism Author:Eyre Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to give her smart clothes, and might lead others to think less well of her. Sophy always looked neat and simple in her peasant dress, and grew up to be a good an... more »d modest maiden. CHAPTER IV. THE GOOD FOSTER-DAUGHTER. Sophy had lived ten years in this happy way with Lady Linden, when this good lady fell ill. Sophy nursed her with a child's tender love, and thought of everything which could minister in any way to her comfort. She spoke softly, and moved gently, so as not to disturb the sick lady, and Lady Linden liked her better as a nurse than any one else. This was a great happiness to Sophy. She often spent whole nights in the arm-chair, in the gloomy sickroom; and if she fell asleep, the least movement of the sick lady woke her, so careful and watchful was she. Lady Linden knew how to value this tender childlike love, and blessed the hour when she had brought Sophy home to the castle. One cold winter's night, the sick lady felt worse than usual, and asked for some tea, which she thought might revive her. Sophy went directly and made the tea in the kitchen. She brought it to the invalid, but she could not help trembling with the cold. Lady Linden drank the tea, and said," You are very kind to me, my dear Sophy; a child of my own could not do more. God will reward you. I have not, my child, forgotten you in my will. I have left you a sum of money which will enable you some day to marry comfortably. You will receive it after my death; but your affection, dear Sophy, it is impossible to repay." Sophy wept, and begged her not to talk in that way. But the noble lady said, "Do not weep, dear child. Death is not so fearful as you think: he is only a friend that delivers us from a prison, in which we groan in this life; he opens to us the gates of a brighter world. Wi...« less