Prudy had a vague feeling that he was one of the little ones that God thought best to punish by "snipping his heart." She knew what it was to have _her_ heart snipped, and had a sympathy with little Freddy.
Susy loved Freddy, too.

Perhaps Percy was right, when he said that Susy loved everything that was dumb; and I am not sure but her tender heart would have warmed to him all the more if he had been stone-blind, as well as deaf.
Freddy had a drunken father, and a sad home; but, for all that, he was not entirely miserable.

It is only the wicked who are miserable.

The kind Father in heaven has so planned it that there is something pleasant in everybody's life.
Freddy had no more idea what _sound_ is than we have of the angels in heaven; but he could see, and there is so much to be seen! Here is a great, round world, full of beauty and wonder.

It stands ready to be looked at.