The young wife took his hand. She was about to speak, but did not, for just then the door opened and a tall woman's figure crossed the threshold.
"Mother!" they cried, both springing up, "Mother Anna Maria!" And the young man tenderly put his arm around her and kissed her hand.
"Good evening, children," she said simply, and her eyes looked gently over to them, under the white hair.
"Oh, dearest mother, how charming of you!" cried the young wife, exultingly. "How are father and the sisters?"
"Edwin is well," she replied; "and the sisters are looking forward to Sunday, when you are coming over."
"Well, I had a longing to see my eldest daughter and my only son," she said lovingly; "and besides, to-day is Martinmas."
She let bonnet and cloak be taken off, and sat down on the sofa. "What have you there?" she asked, turning over the papers. Then her eyes rested upon them; she read, and a delicate blush gradually mounted to her face.
"Those were the sad years," she whispered; "now come the bright ones. When I am dead then write underneath:
"'She was the happiest of wives, the most beloved of mothers!'"
In this series of historical and biographical works the publishers have included only such books as will interest and instruct the youth of both sexes. A copy should be in every public, school and private library.
LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. By George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of our first president.
LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Hon. Joseph H. Barrett, ex-member of Congress.
LIFE OF U. S. GRANT. By Hon. B. P. Poore and Rev. O. H. Tiffany, D. D.
LIFE OF WILLIAM McKINLEY. By Murat Halstead, Chauncey M. Depew and John Sherman.
LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By Thomas W. Handford.
LIFE OF HENRY M. STANLEY. By Prof. A. M. Godbey, A. M.
LIFE OF JOHN PAUL JONES. By Charles Walter Brown.
LIFE OF ETHAN ALLEN. By Charles Walter Brown.
LIFE OF W. T. SHERMAN. By Hon. W. Fletcher Johnson and Gen. O. O. Howard.
LIFE OF P. T. BARNUM. By Hon. Joel Benton.
LIFE OF T. DEWITT TALMAGE. By Charles Francis Adams.
LIFE OF D. L. MOODY. By Charles Francis Adams.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Sister's Love, by W. Heimburg
