She had reached the thirty-fifth verse, and read onward with a passionate earnestness and understanding that made every word have a new revelation to Rachel: "Let your loins be girded up, and your lights burning; "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately.
"Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
"And if ye shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and shall find them so, blessed are those servants.
"And this now that if the good man of the house had known what the hour the thief would come he would have watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through.
"Be ye therefore ready also, for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye think not." Rachel stirred a little, and Aunt Debby looked up and closed the book.
"I'm afeared I've roused ye up too soon," she said, coming toward the bed with a look of real concern upon her sad, sweet face.

"I raylly didn't intend ter.

I jest opened the book ter read teh promise 'bout our Father heedin' even a sparrer's fall, an' forgot 'bout our Father heedin' even a sparrer's fall, an' forgot, an' read on; an' when I read, I must read out loud, ter git the good of hit.

Some folks pretend they kin understand jest ez well when they read ter themselves.

Mebbe they kin." "O, no," replied Rachel cheerfully, "you didn't disturb me in the least.
It was time that I got up, and I was glad to hear you read.