Go ahead, David, win her, if you can! She is
a rare, good girl."
"Which one, sir?"
"Come, come! David, I am completely bewildered by this evening's
discoveries. Do not bear too hard on me, for falling into a common
error--mistaking the apparent for the real. This night has proved a
test far more thorough than I imagined it possibly could. You may
safely abide by the issue and never fear the stormy sea," answered his
father.
A few months more and Vallie Fairleigh's merry voice and sweet smile
resounds through, and brightens the minister's home.
David Carlton stands to-day among the best-loved and most popular of
the clergy. Attributable most likely to his "wife's influence" (his
father says). I well know she has soothed many an aching heart,
cheered the long, weary hours of the sickroom, won the young from the
path of evil, and now numberless prayers are ascending and begging
God's blessing on the "minister's wife."
* * * * *
IN THE HOSPITAL.
BY FRANCES HENSHAW BADEN.
In the autumn of 1862 my time was constantly employed in the various
hospitals of Washington. At this period of our struggle the Sanitary
Commission was in its infancy, and all attentions of the kind ladies
were joyfully received by surgeons and nurses, as well as by our
noble, suffering boys.
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