5/13 Each action would show to all the world how much I loved you." "I must not now hear this. Great God of Heaven give me strength to carry out the purpose of my soul." "What purpose is it, Flora, that you have to pray thus fervently for strength to execute? The greatest and the most glorious gift it ever bestowed upon its creatures. Heaven will not aid you in repudiating that which is the one grand redeeming feature that rescues human nature from a world of reproach." Flora wrung her hands despairingly as she said,-- "Charles, I know I cannot reason with you. |