How to be beautiful, and other stories1868 - 16 pàgines |
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asked basket beautiful beheld Bessie Lee Bessie's Bless blue overalls bonnet bright brother child Christ may dwell clasped closed in blind countenance cry to Thee dark dream dressed drooped eagerly EDINBURGH elder lady faded eyes fair feet fence flashed flinging flowers gable ends gaze fell gentle girl GIRL'S GOOD DEED golden hair hand happy harping heart by faith heaven Helen Jesus kissed laughed leaned lifted light lips little beggar boy LITTLE GIRL'S little readers loved Miss Mary mother mother's knee murmured MURRAY AND GIBB ness never night opened passed path pearl gate pillow pity pluck pony poor prayer ragged reply Saviour secret shadow shining lashes sister's soft smile soft eyes speak spot stood stooped sunshine sweet face tell thing Thy blood thy hearing touch touchingly tulips turned Twin Children ugly voice walked weeping whispered wild words workman's young lady
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Pàgina 45 - Jesus, Saviour, pity me ! Hear me when I cry to thee ! I've a very naughty heart, Full of sin in every part ; I can never make it good, — Wilt thou wash me in thy blood ? Jesus, Saviour, pity me ! Hear me when I cry to thee...
Pàgina 33 - Are you fond of flowers, sir? It will give me great pleasure to gather you some.' The young workman looked a moment very earnestly into the fair, sweet face. ' Twelve years ago this very month,' he said, in a voice deep, and yet tremulous with feeling, ' I stood here, leaning on this railing, a dirty, ragged, little beggar boy, and you asked me this very question. Twelve years ago you placed the bright flowers in my hands, and they made a new boy, ay, and they have made a man of me too.
Pàgina 30 - I am afraid, little children, you would have turned away in disgust from so repulsive a spectacle, and yet God and the angels loved him. He was looking, with all his soul in his eyes, on the beautiful blossoms, as they swayed to and fro in the summer wind, and his heart softened while he leaning his arm on the fence railing, and forgot everything in that long, absorbed gaze.
Pàgina 30 - Ah! it was seldom the beggar-boy saw anything that was either very good or beautiful, and it was sad his dream should have such a rude awakening. The blood rushed up to his face, and a glance full of evil and defiance flashed into his eyes. But before the boy could retort, a little girl sprang out from the arbour and looked eagerly from one child to the other. She was very fair, with soft hazel eyes, over which drooped long, shining lashes. Rich curls hung over her almost bare, white shoulders ;...
Pàgina 34 - Tear-drops trembled like morning dew on the shining lashes of the lady, as she turned to her husband, who had joined her, and listened in absorbed astonishment to the workman's words.
Pàgina 31 - Little boy" — and the child turned to the beggar boy, and addressed him as courteously as though he had been a prince — "I'll pick you some of the tulips if you'll wait a moment.
Pàgina 34 - And the setting sun poured a flood of rich purple light over the group that stood there, — over the workman in his blue overalls, over the lady with her golden hair, and over the happy-looking gentleman at her side.
Pàgina 28 - ... world where they neither marry nor are given in marriage, a purifying hope and a lofty affection will hallow your union on earth. And, if not inscribed above your mantel-shelf, there will at least be written in your deepest self the motto, sent to his bride by that illustrious scholar, Bengel — « Jesus in heaven ; Jesus in the heart ; Heaven in the heart ; The heart in heaven.
Pàgina 29 - ... wrote a beautiful prophecy for the autumn. A white paling ran in front of the garden, and over this the little beggar boy, so rudely addressed, was leaning. He was very lean, very dirty, very ragged. I am afraid you would have turned away in disgust from so repulsive a spectacle, and yet God and the angels loved him ! He was looking with all his soul in his eyes on the beautiful blossoms, as they swayed to and fro in the summer wind, and his heart softened while...