"
"The estimate is low," I answered. "If you had said two-thirds, you
would have been, perhaps, nearer the truth."
Blanche crossed the room, and came and stood by her mother's chair,
looking down into her face with a loving smile.
"I am afraid the journey has been too much for you," she said, with
a shadow of concern in her face.
"You look paler than usual."
"Paler, because a little fatigued, dear. But a night's rest will
bring me up even again," Mrs. Montgomery replied cheerfully.
"How is the pain in your side, now?" asked Blanche, still with a
look of concern.
"Easier. I scarcely notice it now."
"Blanche is over anxious about my health, dear girl!" said Mrs.
Montgomery, as the bride moved to another part of the room. She
thinks me failing rapidly. And, without doubt, the foundations of
this earthly house are giving way; but I trust, that ere it fall
into ruin, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens,
will be ready for my reception."
There was no depressing solemnity in her tones, as she thus alluded
to that event which comes to all; but a smiling cheerfulness of
manner that was contagious.
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