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his marriage. Dinah was the most striking in personal appearance. She had been born a princess in her nati

y of Mr. Grafton, they were regarded a

band and wife; identifying their own dearest interests, and making each other only subordi

d. If she had not been a princess in her own country, she belonge

; and her high and imperious spirit was soon subdued to the gentle influences

eart, which is found in an intimate knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. Her character, under the burning sun of Afri

o menial service, however humble, which she would not have sought for those she loved. Love ele

watches of the night,-the nurse that the sleepless eye ever found awake. Hers was that sentient sympathy that could interpret the weary look,-that love that steals i

nd mistress died, commending the

her life; and, if Mr. Grafton had not interposed, she would have treated her like those precious jewels of t

y broken, to insure that implicit and prompt obedience that the old system of educati

hild is the strength of purpose which, in man and woman, leads to all excellence. Before it is guided by

tempered so finely by the influences of love and religion, that she yielded to every t

g but firm eye of Dinah,-which spoke as plain as eye could speak,-an

qualities in tender mothers. When a young child finds its mother uniform-not one day weakly indulgent, and the next capriciously severe, but always the same mild, firm being-she is to the child like a bene

even his favorite Greek classics became playfully familiar as household words, although she really knew little about them. But the Christian ethics came

by Dinah. At night, after her little childish prayer, when she

ender heart, a mother lost in infancy is the beautiful Madonna of the church; and the hear

spot in the evening sky where she fancied the spirit of her mother to dwell; and there, in all