And I think that did not sit very long without
asking Jesus if she mightn't go and help her sister. There is but one
thing needful--that is, the will of God; and when people love that above
everything, they soon come to see that to everything else there are two
sides, and that only the will of God gives fair play, as we call it, to
both of them."
Another silence followed. Then Connie spoke.
"Is it not strange, papa, that the only thine here that makes me want to
get up to look, is nothing of all the grand things round about me? I am
just lying like the convex mirror in the school-room at home, letting them
all paint themselves in me."
"What is it then that makes you wish to get up and go and see?" I asked
with real curiosity.
"Do you see down there--away across the bay--amongst the rocks at the
other side, a man sitting sketching?"
I looked for some time before I could discover him.
"Your sight is good, Connie: I see the man, but I could not tell what he
was doing."
"Don't you see him lifting his head every now and then for a moment, and
then keeping it down for a longer while?"
"I cannot distinguish that. But then I am shortsighted rather, you know.
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