100 BE TRUE.

Years have passed since that sad
parting, and Laura is now a happy
wife and mother. In the world there
is tribulation, even to the “true of
heart:” but a peace which is not of
this world is the portion of such.
Laura has laid her kind friend and
foster mother in the grave, and the
fortune, which thus became her own,
was no solace to her sorrowing heart.
The sweetest balm to that heart was
the constant recollection of the last
words which fell from the lips of Mrs.
Elmore—“ To die is gain.”

There is a lady who on no account
would be considered old, but whose
face, screwed into many an unseem-
ly wrinkle, tells an ’owre true tale,
who often comes in from the coun-
try, and calls on Laura, who always
receives her kindly, calls her sister