were wonderful expressions in the eyes when he was thinking or
listening. He used to read the Greek Testament with me every
morning, and his questions and remarks rise up before me again. That
text--You have seen it in church.'

'Because I live, ye shall live also,' Albinia repeated.

'Yes. A little before his illness we came to that. He rested on it,
as he used to do on anything that struck him, and asked me, "whether
it meant the life hereafter, or the life that is hidden here?" We
went over it with such comments as I could find, but his mind was not
satisfied; and it must have gone on working on it, for one night,
when I had been thinking him delirious, he called me, and the light
shone out of those bright dark eyes of his as he said, joyfully, "It
is both, papa! It is hidden here, but it will shine out there," and
as I did not catch his meaning, he repeated the Greek words.'

'Dear boy! Some day we shall be glad that the full life and glory
came so soon.'

He shook his head, the parting was still too recent, and it was the
first time he had been able to speak of his son. It was a great
satisfaction to her that the reserve had once been broken; it seemed
like compensation for the present trouble, though that was acutely
felt, and not softened by the curious eyes and leading questions of
the sisters, when she returned to give what attention she could to
their interrupted lessons.

Gilbert returned, unsuspicious of the storm, till his father's stern
gravity, and her depressed, pre-occupied manner, excited his