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A Friend in Need, and Other Stories, by A.l.o.e.
A Friend in Need and Other Stories by Aloe Author:Charlotte Maria Tucker 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: IOOD-BYE to you, Mr. Aylmer; I'm sorry that we're not to see you 1 again till the summer. You've , always been ready with a good word, ay, and a helping ha... more »nd too, for the poor. I'll miss your pleasant smile in those dull, dark, wintry days, as have little enough to light 'em. And little Emmy —she'll miss you, too; won't you, my lamb V said the Widow Cowell, as she lifted up in her arms a pretty blue-eyed child of about four years of age, to bid good-bye to the Scripture-reader who was going to a distant part of the country. " Good-bye, Mary Cowell," said Aylmer,shaking- with kindness the thin hand which the widow held out; " and good-bye to you, dear little one," he added, as bending forward he kissed the brow of the child, between the clustering locks of gold. " It's a solemn word ' good-bye,' when we think of the meaning that's in it." " I did not know that it had any particular meaning," said Mary ; " it's a word that we're always a-saying, and sometimes with a heavy heart." " Good-bye, is ' God be with you' shortened to a single word. It is a blessing to the one who departs echoed back to the one who remains. God be with you, Mary Cowell; may you feel His presence in the street—in the shop—by your board—by your bed—in your heart! You'll have many a temptation to struggle against,— God be with you in the hour of temptation ! you'll have many a trial to bear,—God be with you then, and He will turn all these trials into blessings ! You've a little onethere, dear to your heart; remember that like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him!" " Ay, bless her heart! I love her !" thought Mary, as she led her little girl back into the small room which she hired by the week, in one of the back streets of London. " But if God pities me, li...« less