THE REAL CHRISTIAN
CHAPTER I.
“I fear everything for him … because he is so good.”
The speech was more passionate than the calm, almost reticent expression of the widow's face seemed to warrant. As if suddenly the past had held a mirror to her face, with the reflection of herself preserved in it for twenty years, she seemed to see herself kneeling with her child clasped in her arms, agonized at the loneliness, terrified beneath a burden she hardly felt equal to bear: the responsibility of a living soul. All the solitude of sojourning on this earth came to her and distressed her with an agitation that rendered her almost
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