Oh, it is so horrid! Una had really come to be so good and so much in earnest.

She behaved so well at school and church, that even Mrs.Ledwich liked her, and she used to read her Testament half the day, and bring her Sunday-school lessons to ask me about! Oh! I was so fond of her, and it really seemed to have done some good with her.

And now it is all lost! Oh, I wish I knew what would become of my poor child!" "The only hope is that it may not be all lost," said Margaret.
"With such a woman for a mother!" said Ethel; "and going to some heathenish place again! If I could only have seen her first, and begged her to go to church and say her prayers.

If I only knew where she is gone! but I don't.

I did think Una would have come to wish me good-bye!" "I am very sorry to lose her," said Richard.
"Mr.Wilmot says it is bread cast on the waters," said Margaret--"he was very kind in consoling Ethel, who came home quite in despair." "Yes, he said it was one of the trials," said Ethel, "and that it might be better for Una as well as for me.