Eternal purposes are involved therein, as surely as God is infinitely wise and good.

Good to one, perhaps to many, will grow out of what now seems a deeply to be regretted circumstance." "You're a happy reasoner, Edith.

I wish I could believe in so consoling a philosophy." "Edward!" There was a change in Mrs.Claire's voice, and a look blending surprise with a gentle rebuke in her countenance.

"Edward, how can you speak so?
Is not mine the plain Christian doctrine?
Is it not to be found everywhere in the Bible ?" "Doubtless, Edith; but I'm not one of the pious kind, you know." Claire forced a smile to his face, but his wife looked serious, and remarked-- "I don't like to hear you talk so, Edward.

There is in it, to me, something profane.