Ah, sir, your sister has opened a new book for me to read in--the book of nature." Mr.Willet glanced, half-inquiringly, toward Flora.
"Fanny speaks with enthusiasm," said the sister.
"What have you been talking about?
What new leaf has Flora turned for you, Miss Markland ?" "A leaf on which there is much written that I already yearn to understand.

All things visible, your sister said to me, are but the bodying forth in nature of things invisible, yet in harmony with immutable laws of order." "Reason will tell you that this is true," remarked Mr.Willet.
"Yes; I see that it must be so.

Yet what a world of new ideas it opens to the mind! The flower I hold in my hand, Flora says, is but the outbirth, or bodily form, of a spiritual flower.

How strange the thought!" "Did she not speak truly ?" asked Mr.Willet, in a low, earnest voice.
"What is that ?" inquired Mrs.Markland, who was not sure that she had heard her daughter correctly.
"Flora say that this flower is only the bodily form of a spiritual flower; and that, without the latter, the former would have no existence." Mrs.Markland let her eyes fall to the floor, and mused for some moments.
"A new thought to me," she at length said, looking up.

"Where did you find it, Flora ?" "I have believed this ever since I could remember any thing," replied Flora.
"You have ?" "Yes, ma'am.