Ruth Earnley, by Mrs MacKenzie Daniels
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ISBN13: 9781458966834
Paperback|9781458966834
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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: CHAPTER III. Jane Morley died; and although I never asked a single question concerning her last moments, and my dear mother (seeing the effect already produced on me by what I had witnessed at the cottage) forbore from that evening to make the slightest allusion to the subject, still I could not get over the shock I had experienced. For the time, I was completely sobered; and everything that had before engrossed my worldly heart, now lost its interest j while through each nerve and fibre of my being ran an assenting echo to the warning words? But one thing is needful. Under the influence of these new feelings, -I became scrupulously attentive to all my outward duties;?I read my Bible with praiseworthy regularity, I said longer prayers than usual, I tried on Sunday to keep my yes away from the pink bonnets of some young ladies who came from the neighbouring village to our church, and I made still stronger efforts to avoid during domestic worship looking at the beautiful lady above tne, whom I was said to resemble. . But it wouldn't do. There wasn't -ja bit of heart, not a grain of love in all the service .1 made a show of rendering. Like poor Jane Morley, I was frightened at the thought of living any longer without God; but, less ihonest than she had been, I was willing to impose upon Him if I could, by feigning an attachment which I was very far from feeling. . But a religion like this never yet produced happiness in any human soul; and the secret uneasiness that weighed upon me soon ma- nifested itself in my outward aspect; so that my father and mother grew alarmed about me, and long and many were the consulta tions that took place as to what could be done to benefit my failing health. At length it was determined to send me to school j?a strange decision you wi...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458966834 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458966836 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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