The Pearl of Love: or, Josey's Gift

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Leslie Madeline. The Pearl of Love: or, Josey's Gift

CHAPTER I. JOSEY'S RIDE

CHAPTER II. THE TWO NURSES

CHAPTER III. THE WRONG BABY

CHAPTER IV. JOSEY'S TEMPER

CHAPTER V. JOSEY'S CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER VI. THE BURNED BABY

CHAPTER VII. JOSEY'S SORROW

CHAPTER VIII. JOSEY'S GIFT

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Soon after they were gone, Ann perceived that Josey was sleepy, and easily persuaded him to lie down on the bed. Then the two nurses, having had their supper, began to chat, while they tended the babies.

"Look now!" said Ann, dancing Miss Emma on her lap, "the two of them look as much alike as a pair of kittens."

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"Not just there, maybe; but we would have had no hope of being happy, because there was God with a sword over our heads; and he couldn't take it away, till somebody, equal to the whole world of people, suffered the penalty in our stead."

"I see it now, I've heard Master explain, that Jesus being the Son of God, his blood was more precious than the blood of all the human race; and if all the sins of all the people were washed in it, there still would be enough to save millions on millions more."

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