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Excerpt from Fifty Years Syne: A Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago
He had been at a lecture on Otago, in the village school, and was just returning. It was an evening in the late autumn. There was a touch of frost in the air a film of white mist lay along the carse; a rank smell came from the decaying shaws of potatoes in a field close at hand and the spirits of the man were somewhat low, as, with bent head, he walked wearily along the well known road. Ere he reached his home, however, his head was elate; he walked with a resolute step, and a new hope was dawning in his soul.
She heard his footstep, and then the latch was lifted, and he entered. The cement floor recently whitened, the blackened jambs brightly polished, and shining in the glow Of the fire-light above all the winsomeness of the woman who had walked bravely with him for the last ten years in sunshine and shadow, filled him with gladness. The quietness, and comfort, and subtle grace of a Christian home crept about his Spirit and lapt him as in an atmosphere of heaven, and he shrank from speaking about his newly-formed purpose. At last he said, with startling abruptness, I think we should go, Jean.
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