When I think of it now, the words always come with it, "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth," and I cannot but believe they rejoiced then, for if ever I repented in my life I repented then.

When at length I was down in bed beside Davie, it seemed as if there could be nobody in the world so blessed as I was: I had been forgiven.

When I woke in the morning, I was as it were new born into a new world.

Before getting up I had a rare game with Davie, whose shrieks of laughter at length brought Mrs.Mitchell with angry face; but I found myself kindly disposed even towards her.

The weather was much the same; but its dreariness had vanished.