I did not mean it.
Let us try to get on better for the future.

We ought, for we are both so fond of the children and of Arnold." Such simple words, such a natural feeling! if that hard heart were only natural and soft enough to take it in.

And it was--for once.
Miss Gascoigne looked incredulously up, then down again, in a shamefaced, uncomfortable way, then held out her hand, and kissed Christian, while two tears--only two--gathered and dropped from her eyes.
But the worst was over.

The ice was broken and the stream ran clear.
How long it would run good angels only could tell.

But they sang, and kept on singing, all that day, in Christian's heart, the song of peace-- "peace on earth"-- for the battle was over and the foes were reconciled..