A Struggle for a Ring — page 319: what you’re looking at

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DRESSING A RIVAL. 315 well lost if she could only win her husband’s love—who bore the loss of everything, friends, fair fame, children, home, all that a woman’s heart holds most dear—yet never once murmured against the will of her sovereign lord and master !—Patient Griselda, whose name has been handed down from all posterity as the pattern of most loving and devoted of wives. , ‘<That was love,” thought Ailie, with a long sigh; ‘‘ that was love indeed! And Griselda won her husband’s love at last ; and how dearly he must have loved her, after all that she had suffered !” What woman had once done woman could do again— the patience and perseverance that had triumphed once should triumph again—that which Patient Griselda had done, she would do. ‘The dignity of a noble purpose came to her, and made her beautiful womanhood more noble still. She could not have chosen a more noble pur- pose than that of winning her husband's love. The light of earnest enthusiasm came into her face—her eyes shone ~ with clear, holy light. ‘¢T will live for it, and die for it,” she said; ‘‘I will have no.other purpose in life than this one of winning my hus- band’s love. I will be patient, even as Griselda was; I will endure all things—jealousy, pain, calumny, neglect, everything and anything, with this one hope in view of ‘making him love me in the end. 7 | _ It seemed to her that from this moment a high and holy mission was hers, that her life from this time was conse- crated to a good and noble purpose. She lay down to sleep that night happier than she had been for months; to her innocent heart came innocent dreams of the time when he should give her a ‘‘kiss with his whole heart in it;” to her innocent lips rose prayers simple as the prayers of a i (€ @) ~ Gomme Oyo) @)