THE PREMIUM. 187

“Do you? Well, then, if you want me to go,
Twill.”

The boy turned away as he made this promise,
and Lucy went on her way with such a glow of
pleasure at her heart as she had scarcely exer
Imown before. How different were these from
the feelings which his last attack on her had pro-
duced! Such, my dear young readers, are the
effects on others, and on our own souls, of that
lovely, gentle, forgiving temper which Christ
teaches.