is connection life began again to assume its rose-tints of old, and he was led to wonder how it was he had so given way to grief and sadness. In recalling the trials and disadvant

is case. Upon his return to Troy he called upon Madame X-- and explained his wishes. Miss Toothaker was consulted, and accepted his proposition at once; she would be on missionary ground at all events. True, she was conditionally engaged to marry a Mr. Freeman Clarke, who was an i

state of contention, when the proposal of go

her lover the facts in the case-except that she left him to infer that

but he saw from his lady's letter it was too late. He solaced himself somewhat by replying to her dolorously, hoping that she might perceive his heart was broken and be sorry. He closed loftily by saying: "You ad

and soon gave out altogether. His love for souls settled down upon one Annette Jones, the plain daughter of a plain farmer, whom he married, and lived happily enough with upon a small, rocky farm in the State of Vermont. In times of

such an address to the Supreme Being blasphemous an

r. Adams. The doctor was rejoiced to have back Minerva again, f

On the evening of his arrival he went out to visit her grave. As he stood ther

rave?" she a

quite forget Della, would

y look down upon us in love and blessing. I would not seek to drive her memory from your heart. I do not consider that I have usurp

he had won, and how worthy a successor to his firs

y on earth-as one I love

regretful that she declined. They little dreamed what was going on in their absence. Suffice to say, when, after a few days of rest, they began to m

rom his knees, Dr. Adams walked up to the blushing Miss Toothaker, and taking her h

ng low and smiling mellifluously) "you see how it is, sir, and what we wish of yo

supreme moment of her life how very providential it was that she had thrown overboard Mr. Freeman Clarke. Whether he was picked up or whether the sharks devoured him, it occurred not to her to care. That she was about to become the fourth wife of the Rev. Dr. Adams, foreign missionary at the Capitol city of Turkey, was sufficient glory; she co

keeping t

spoke the words, "for better-for worse." His prayer was brief and dry,

thank Philip for his kindness in bringing him over a wife.

ed not the absence of Arethusa. They had endured her company for sake of the advantage she wa

usa for the the rest of his life, his taste was abominable. De gustibus non disput

ng a missionary's wife proved neither illusiv

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ustr