CHAPTER VII

HAND IN HAND THEY WENT OUT ON THE ROAD
TOGETHER

  

SGA 2S ND the cold days of hard work kept
going by, and the City Beautiful grew,
{. and huddled close together in the straw
; the children planned and dreamed, and
read and re-read the Pilgrim's Progress, following
Christian step by step. And Aunt Matilda became
busier every day it seemed, and did not remember
that they were alive, except when she saw them.
And nobody guessed, and nobody knew.

Days so quickly grew to weeks, and weeks slip by
so easily until they are months, and at last there came
a time when Meg, going out in the morning, felt a
softer air, and stopped a moment by a bare tree to
breathe ‘it in and feel its lovely touch upon her
cheek. She turned her face upward with a half-
involuntary movement, and found herself looking at
such a limitless vault of tender blueness, that her

~ heart gave a quick throb, a seemed to spring up to
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