Читать книгу One Woman's Life - Robert Herrick - Страница 11
Оглавление"How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord!"
It was a wholly meaningless social function, this, and useful to the girl. Later charity might take its place. Horatio Ridge, who had never qualified as a church member while his wife lived, knowing his own unregenerate habits and having a healthy-minded male's aversion to hypocrisy, now went to church with his daughter quite regularly. He felt that it was a good thing—the right thing for the girl, in some way insuring her woman's safety in this wicked world, if not her salvation in the next.
They made a pretty picture together, father and daughter—the girl with the wide blue eyes and open mouth, standing shoulder to shoulder with the little man, each with one gloved hand grasping an edge of the hymn-book and singing, Milly in a high soprano—
"Nearer, my God, to Thee!"
and Horatio, rumbling behind a little uncertainly—
"Nearer to Thee—to THEE!"
