"Next week, if nothing happens, we will begin to be busy with
our books. You shall come to me Tuesday and Friday; and all
the other days you must study as hard as you can at home; for
I am very particular, I forewarn you."
"But suppose Aunt Fortune should not let me come?" said Ellen,
without stirring.
"Oh, she will. You need not speak about it; I'll come down and
ask her myself, and nobody ever refuses me anything."
"I shouldn't think they would," said Ellen.
"Then, don't you set the first example," said Alice,
laughingly. "I ask you to be cheerful and happy, and grow
wiser and better every day."
"Dear Miss Alice, how can I promise that?"
"Dear Ellen, it is very easy. There is One who has promised to
hear and answer you when you cry to him; he will make you in
his own likeness again; and to know and love him and not be
happy is impossible. That blessed Saviour!" said Alice — "oh,
what should you and I do without him, Ellen? 'as rivers of
waters in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a
weary land;' — how beautiful — how true! —how often I think of
that!"
Ellen was silent, though entering into the feeling of the
words.
"Remember Him, dear Ellen; remember your best Friend. Learn
more of Christ, our dear Saviour, and you can't help but be
happy. Never fancy you are helpless and friendless while you
have him to go to.
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