our Father for his mercies towards me; and while I thank him for the
many blessings which I have received from his hand, my heart shall also
praise him that with these joys have been mingled,--the purifying light
of his chastening love."




CHAPTER VII.


NATALIE.


"If ever angels walked this weary earth
In human likeness, thou wert one of them."

ANONYMOUS.


"'Mid pleasures and palaces, where'er we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere."

MOORE.


"Sampson, Mr. Sampson! just step this way, and bring your eye to bear a
little to the nothe-nothe-east, and tell me what you make."