[The Story of Jessie by Mabel Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of Jessie CHAPTER X 3/11
And if you go on trusting and hoping, little Jessamine, trying to hold the faith that never faileth, all will come right.
I know it will, I am sure." Jessie lifted a very eager face to her old friend.
"Do you really think so ?" she asked anxiously. "I am sure of it, dear; quite sure." Silence fell on them both for a few moments, then Jessie looked up with a face alight with eagerness.
"Miss Patch, couldn't I have a little Sunday-school for Charlie, just like granp had for me? I couldn't teach him, but I could read to him, and learn hymns with him, couldn't I? Don't you think it would be nice ?" "I think it is a beautiful idea," agreed Miss Patch warmly. Then, after a moment, she added, "How would you like it if I had the school, and you both came to me? I could go down to Charlie's room, as a rule, but I do believe that sometimes you might both come up to me.
If he were carried up very carefully and laid on my bed I feel sure it would not hurt him, and I think the change of surroundings might even do him good.
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