Boys -- Juvenile fiction; London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Siblings -- Juvenile fiction
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After all, brave Meg was the only one to die. For long before the
daisies came into blossom on her grave in the country cemetery to which
Warden had her carried, the roses had come back to the bonnie cheeks of
sweet baby Roy, and the health and brightness to his eyes. He had been
rescued in time to save his little life. In that re-united home a new
order of things was established. Faith and Roy had never to complain of
a cold or hard father again. The great tribulation of those terrible
eight days had done their work on the man's heart, and the death of Meg
seemed to set the seal to it. Warden told Meg that he believed in Jesus
Christ our Lord. It is enough to say of his future life, that he acted
as only a man could act who carried that belief to its logical
conclusion, and who very humbly and very prayerfully followed in the
steps of the Master whom he loved. Faith and Roy were to grow up
knowing the meaning of true fatherhood, both human and divine. And
Hannah! God was very gracious to poor lost Hannah Searles. He gave her
treasure back to his own, but He did not take him quite away from her.
She still saw her baby boy, and as she grew steadier and more
respectable day by day, and week by week, Warden gradually gave her more
to do in his house, until finally she almost lived there.
"I said to the Lord that I'd be good ef He spared me the child," she was
often heard to say, "and I'm a trying. I'm a rare and wicked woman, God
h'Almighty knows that werry, werry well, but I'm a trying hard to be
good."
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The End.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A London Baby, by L.T. Meade
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