Intent on the object of my visit, I at the same moment offered up silent prayer to God, and entertained a hope, that the welcome fragrance of the shrub might be illustrative of that all-prevailing intercession of a Redeemer, which I trusted was, in the case of this little child, as "a sweet-smelling savour" to her heavenly Father.

The very flowers and leaves of the garden and field are emblematical of higher things, when grace teaches us to make them so.
Jane was in bed upstairs.

I found no one in the house with her except the woman who had brought me the message on the evening before.

The instant I looked on the girl, I perceived a very marked change in her countenance: it had acquired the consumptive hue, both white and red.

A delicacy unknown to it before quite surprised me, owing to the alteration it produced in her look.