Hubert's Wife

er of a millionaire selected for him; Leonora, the elder sister, had her pet friend Miss De Rosier, secretly engaged and under promise; Juliet, the younger, wished him never to

ered this to their discomfiture when shortly after he announced to them one morni

ful perversity? When they had just got a brother to be proud of, who could take them to theatres, concerts, balls, operas, and everywhere, for him to go and degenerate into an old solemn Presbyterian minister! It would be bearable, if he must be a minister, if he would only be a High Churchman, and would be called a priest, and wear the surplice, and read the service in his charming voice, and be rector of such a fine, rich church as our own St. Mark's! They could put up with that, because he could st

an, that he made scarcely an effort in its behalf. He was conscious that therein lay neglect of duty; they might owe to him what he owed to Mary Selby. Often

as missionary to Turkey they were scarcely surprised. They made no outcries and no ado; they had given him up long ago; he would be no company for them in their rounds of gaiety and fashion; he might as well

on of what the grace of God might effect. Six years previously he had startled and amazed them, as though he had ridden through the air on a broomstick; now he came back to them in peace and gentleness. Before he had laid sacrileg

Owing to this delicate state of her health, the St. Legers did not accompany their companions to the field assigned them, a sm

er husband to their contemplated mission. Here they rejoined their companions of a year ago; Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, and Mr. and Mrs. Dodd. It h

erless it seemed and disheartening to Philip and Della, as they saw no progress at all made

d the St. Legers, so wonderingly

d the Fishers and the Dodds, "nur

together then," sai

shall lead and we will follo

t was termed a school would be sometimes kept up for weeks together, at which some few children could be coaxed to come; but after the supply of

as well have been a bundle of old almanacs, for all printed language was Greek to them. And they, these missionaries, did not believe that the mere possession

ons, but the ears and the hearts for receiving were far away. People, it is true, would come some days in crowds, but

tolid, indifferent, intractable people? They were wedded to their ido

, if not to their satisfaction, to the best of their ability. Their time

se sight of the grand aspirations that had animated their early manhood? To forget, as it were, the objects and aims of their holy mission, and to sink into the mere paterfamilias, like other good masters of families? There seemed no alternative; the routine of domestic duties must be accomplished; the sick must be attended to; hungry mouths must be fed, fast-coming forms must be clothed. Where was the time to go forth seeking the heathen or compelling him

n Christ's vineyard, they might do so by and by; though they might live to behold no fruit of their labors, they might, unknown even to

be said to have lived at all. As her third trial was approaching and her health in wretched state it was deemed best that she should be taken by easy stages to Constantinople, where E

Adams. English and American travelers, whether rel

man. Though still in the prime of life, he had traveled the world over, made himself conversant with all languages, manners, and customs, studied

istributing a Turkish pipe to each, he sat himself down upon his cushi

St. Leger being at this time the third who had arrived within a day or two, the o

presented. He catechised these three missionaries as faithfully, even in presence of Dr. Adams, as if he had been President of the American Board. He desired to know

himself, Mr. Chase said, w

ations; you will pardon me if I tell you what you cannot fail to know, that they are com

opened wide their eyes, but the