But I am glad from my heart that her husband has come back.

If he will be kind to his wife, I will forgive all his indebtedness to me." A few weeks subsequent to this time, as Miriam sat reading the morning paper, she came upon a brief account of the arrest, in New Orleans, of a "noted gambler," as it said, named Burton, on the charge of bigamy.
The paper dropped to the floor, and Miriam, with clasped hands and eyes instantly overflowing with tears, looked upward, and murmured her thanks to Heaven.
"What an escape!" fell tremblingly from her lips, as she arose and went to her room to hold communion with her own thoughts.
Three years have passed, and what has been the result of the widow's new experiment?
The school prospered from the beginning.

The spirit with which Edith and Miriam went to work made success certain.

Parents who sent their children were so much pleased with the progress they made, that they spoke of the new school to their friends, and thus gave it a reputation, that, ere a year had elapsed, crowded the rooms of the sisters.

Mrs.Darlington was a woman who had herself received a superior education.