You cannot mate with her, my friend, in the glorious hereafter, unless you are of equal purity.

Oh, be patient, yet hopeful!" Hendrickson had bowed his head, and was now sitting with his eyes upon the floor.

He did not answer after Mrs.Denison ceased speaking, but still sat deeply musing.
"It is a hard saying!" He had raised his eyes to the face of his maternal friend.

"A hard saying, and hard to bear.

Oh, there is something so like the refinement of cruelty in these stern events which hold us apart, that I feel at times like questioning the laws that imposed such fearful restrictions.