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all things should be prepared for her journey. So he told her, saying, “Thus and
thus it must be; and we that survive will aceompany you to the river-side.”

Then she called for her children, and gave them her blessing, and told them that
she yet read with comfort the mark that was set in their foreheads, and was glad to
see them with her there, and that they had kept their garments so white. Lastly, she
bequeathed to the poor that little she had, and commanded her sons and her daughters
to be ready against the messenger should come for them.

When she had spoken these words to her guide and to her children, she called for
Mr. Valiant-for-truth, and said unto him, “Sir, you have in all places shown yourself
true-hearted. Be faithful unto death, and my King will give you a crown of life.”
I would also entreat you to have an eye to my children; and if at any time you see
them faint, speak comfortably to them. For my daughters, my sons’ wives, they have
been faithful; and a fulfilling of the promise upon them will be their end.” But she
gave Mr. Stand-fast a ring.

Then she called for old Mr. Honest, and said of him, “ Behold an Israelite indeed,
in whom is no guile.” *

Then said he, “I wish you a fair day when you set out for Mount Zion, and shall
be glad to see that you go over the river dryshod.”

But she answered, “Come wet, come dry, I long to be gone; for, however the:
weather is in my journey, I shall have time enough when I come there to sit down
and rest me and dry me.”

Then came in that good man, Mr. Ready-to-halt, to see her. So she said to him,
“Thy travel hitherto has been with difficulty ; but that will make thy rest the sweeter.
But watch and be ready; for, at an hour when you think not, the messenger may
come.”

After him came in Mr. Despondency and his daugher Much-afraid; to whom she
said, “You ought with thankfulness for ever to remember your deliverance from the
hands of Giant Despair and out of Doubting Castle. The effect of that mercy is that
you are brought with safety hither. Be ye watchful, and cast away fear; be sober, and.
hope to the end.”

Then she said to Mr. Feeble-mind, “Thou wast delivered from the mouth of Giant.
Slay-good, that thou mightest live in the light of the living for ever, and see thy King
with comfort. Only I advise thee to repent thee of thy aptness to fear and doubt of
His goodness, before He sends for thee; lest thou shouldest, when He comes, be forced
to stand before Him for that fault with blushing.”

Now, the day drew on that Christiana must be gone. So the road was full of people: