"Let us not borrow trouble.

Does He not say to us, as to the disciples of old, 'It is I, be not afraid' ?" "Yes; and she is His; only lent to us for a season; and we dare not rebel should He see fit to recall His own," she answered, amid her tears.

"Oh, Edward, I am so glad we indulged her this morning in her wish to play with my jewels!" "Yes; she is the most precious of them all," he said with emotion.
Aunt Chloe, drawing near, respectfully suggested that it might be well to separate the children, in case the little girl's illness should prove to be contagious.
"That is a wise thought, mammy," said Elsie.

"Is it not, Edward ?" "Yes, wife; shall we take our little daughter to our own bedroom, and leave Eddie in possession of the nursery ?" "Yes, I will never leave her while she is ill." Weeks of anxious solicitude, of tenderest, most careful nursing, followed; for the little one was very ill, and for some time grew worse hour by hour.

For days there was little hope that her life would be spared, and a solemn silence reigned through the house; even the romping, fun-loving Horace and Rosie, awe-struck into stillness, and often shedding tears--Horace in private, fearing to be considered unmanly, but Rosie openly and without any desire of concealment--at the thought that the darling of the house was about to pass away from earth.
Rose was filled with grief, the father, and grandfather were almost heart-broken.