"Very well," said she, with a brave effort at cheerful confidence, "do as seems best to you, and Heaven will care for us." Manasseh could not suppress a sigh as he kissed his wife on the forehead.

Anna, who could read her brother's face, knew what that sigh meant.
"You need not be anxious about us, dear brother," she said.

"We are under God's protection, and are prepared for the worst.

We decided long ago what we should do if we were forced to it.

When all is lost that is dearest to us,--our loved ones, our home, our country,--we shall not wait tamely for the enemy to break into the house.