It is in the keeping of the
Almighty. He may have many years of happiness and usefulness in store
for you."
"But I am an outcast now,--one whom all my former friends will
despise,--a slave!" replied Emily, covering her face with her hands, and
sobbing convulsively.
"Nay, be calm; do not give way to such bitter thoughts. This may be a
deception, though, to be candid, I can scarcely see any reason to think
so."
Emily caught at the slight hope thus extended to her; her eyes
brightened, and a little color returned to her pallid cheek.
"Heaven send that it may prove so!" said she; "for I cannot believe that
he who taught me to call him by the endearing name of father; who
watched so tenderly over my infancy, and guided my youthful heart so
faithfully; who, an hour before he died, called me daughter, and blessed
me with his dying breath,--I cannot believe he has been so cruel to me!"
"It seems scarcely possible; but, my child, the ways of Providence are
inscrutable. Whatever afflictions visit us, they are ordered for our
good.
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