Selections From the Writings of the Báb
Báb, 1819-1850
English
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CLEMENCE,
THE
Schoolmistress of Waveland,
BY RETTA B. BABCOCK,
AUTHOR OF "GRAHAM LODGE; OR, LAURA CLIFFORD'S LIFE ROMANCE."
Not many friends my life has made;Few have I loved, and few are theyWho in my hand their hearts have laid;And these are women. I am gray,But never have I been betrayed. |
J. G. Holland. |
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
PRINTED BY THE LEADER PRINTING COMPANY, NO. 142 SUPERIOR STREET.
1870.
PREFACE.
The favor with which a generous public received a formervolume of the writer's, induced her, after a lapse of nearly twoyears, to essay another effort of a similar nature.
In the present work, facts were chosen for a basis, as calculatedto interest, where the wildest dream of the novelist wouldpall upon the satiated mind. It has been remarked, in a homelyphrase by another, that "what comes from the heart, reachesthe heart," and if the present fruits of long and unremittingmental labor, sustained often amid such trial and discouragements,as seldom fall to the lot of mortal to bear, should findsympathy and appreciation with the mass of readers, the aim ofthe writer will have been fully accomplished.
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CLEMENCE,
THE
SCHOOLMISTRESS OF WAVELAND.
CHAPTER I.
"Dearest mother, do not grieve for me, it breaks myheart."
The sweet, sad voice of the speaker quivered withunshed tears, as she knelt before the grief-bowed figureon the sofa, and took one of the little, shrunken,tear-wet hands in both her own, with the devotion of alover.
"Have you not often told me of the sin of distrustingthe All-wise Being, who has cared for us all ourlives thus far? Let us put our trust in Him, and Hewill 'never leave nor forsake us.' Can you not trustHim, precious mother?"
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