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of what had been statues. And with that the words rushed into my head,
and they have never got out since,–‘Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.'”

“When, Mr. Dinwiddie?” said Daisy, after a timid silence.

“When the King comes!” said the young man, still looking off to the
glowing west,–“the time when he will put away out of his kingdom all
things that offend him. You may read about it, if you will, in the
thirteenth chapter of Matthew, in the parable of the tares.”

He turned round to Daisy as he spoke, and the two looked steadily into
one another’s faces; the child wondering very much what feeling it could
be that had called an additional sparkle into those bright eyes the
moment before, and brought to the mouth, which was always in happy play,
an expression of happy rest. He, on his part, queried what lay under the
thoughtful, almost anxious, search of the little one’s quiet grey eyes.

“Do you know,” he said, “that you must go home? The sun is