John thinks of her only as he thought of her in the fair illusion of first love,--the dearest and most sacred of all illusions.
The Lillie who guides his household, and is so motherly to the younger children; who shares every thought of his heart; who enters into every feeling and sympathy,--she is the pure reward of his faithfulness and constancy.

She is a sacred and saintly Lillie, springing out of the sod where he laid her mother, forgetting all her faults for ever.
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