But there is one thing that we can do for your
dear Mamma; you know what I mean. Suppose you each went away alone
for five minutes, and were to come back when I ring the little bell?"
The first to come back was Annie, with the question in a low whisper,
"Miss Fosbrook, will God make Mamma better if we are very good?"
Miss Fosbrook kissed her, saying, "My dear little girl, I cannot
tell. All I can certainly tell you is, that He hears the prayers of
good children, and if it be better for her and for you He will give
her back to you."
Annie did not quite understand, but she entered into what Miss
Fosbrook said enough to wish to be good; so she took up her book, and
began to learn with all her might.
Elizabeth would have thought it much more like a little girl in a
book to have done no lessons, but have sat thinking, and perhaps
reading the Bible all day; but on the whole Elizabeth had hardly
thoughts enough to last her so long; nor was she deep or serious
enough to have done herself much good by keeping the Bible open
before her. In fact she did lose her verse in merely reading the
chapter for the day! So it was just as well that she had something
to do that was not play, and that was a duty, and thus might give the
desire to be good something to bear upon.
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