"The _most_ important act of my life was"-- He paused and gazed lovingly into the face of his wife.

She, now comprehending him, laid, with a pure thrill of joy pervading her bosom, her cheek to his--and thus, for the space of nearly a minute, they sat motionless.
"May God bless you, Edith!" said Claire at length, fervently, lifting his head as he spoke.

"You are the good angel sent to go with me through life.

Ah! but for you, how far from the true path might my feet have strayed! And now," he added, more calmly, "we will look at the present difficulty steadily, and seek to know the right." "The right way," said Edith, after she had to some extent repressed the glad pulses that leaped to her husband's loving words, "is not always the way in which we most desire to walk.

Thorns, sometimes, are at its entrance.