Remember that, and be good to every one here on earth, for your longing to retrieve any harshness or unkindness to the dead will be the very ecstasy of anguish to you.

I wonder," he mused, "if one of the reasons why we're shut up to our ignorance of what is to be hereafter isn't because if we were sure of another world we might be still more brutal to one another here, in the hope of making reparation somewhere else.

Perhaps, if we ever come to obey the law of love on earth, the mystery of death will be taken away." "Well"-- the ancestral Puritanism spoke in Mrs.March--"these two old men have been terribly punished.

They have both been violent and wilful, and they have both been punished.

No one need ever tell me there is not a moral government of the universe!" March always disliked to hear her talk in this way, which did both her head and heart injustice.