He never forgot his sister's words, but received them into his heart as a message from his mother in heaven.

From that time, no one could have judged by any word, look, or action of his that his wife was not what she had always been to him.
Meanwhile Rose was happily married, and settled down in the Ferguson place; where her husband and she formed one family with her parents.
It was a pleasant, cosey, social, friendly neighborhood.

After all, John found that his cross was not so very heavy to carry, when once he had made up his mind that it must be borne.

By never expecting much, he was never disappointed.

Having made up his mind that he was to serve and to give without receiving, he did it, and began to find pleasure in it.