"
"Yes, papa," she replied, beginning the prelude at once, "I will
do my very best."
And so she did. The song was both well played and well sung, and
her father looked proud and happy as the gentlemen expressed their
pleasure and asked for another and another.
Thus the clouds which had so suddenly obscured little Elsie's sky,
seemed to have vanished as speedily as they had arisen.
Her father again treated her with all his wonted affection, and
there even seemed to be a depth of tenderness in his love which it
had not known before, for he could not forget how nearly he had
lost her.
CHAPTER ELEVENTH
"In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank
thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed
them unto babes; even so, Father; for so it seemed good in
thy sight."
--_Luke_ x. 21.
Says the Apostle Paul, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my
conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have
great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart, for I could wish
that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen
according to the flesh.
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