Silas K. Hocking,
Her Benny — Chapter 14
“ For the next month Benny lived in a seventh heaven of delight. The only drawback to his happiness was that Nelly was not alive to share his good fortune. Time was mercifully blunting the keen edge of his sorrow, and day by day he was getting more reconciled to his loss. ”
Silas K. Hocking,
Her Benny — Chapter 14
“ An' that hangel war little Nell, bless her! she's wi' Him now, in the land where there's no more sorrow nor pain, an' Joe's on the way." And the old man looked up into the star-bespangled sky, as if he would look through the very floor of heaven. Benny thought of all this, as he hurried from Mr. Lawrence's door, and felt as if he, too, had had an angel sent from God to help him on the way to heaven. Poor boy! he did not see the heavy cloud that was gathering in the sky, nor the dark and painful paths that lay before him, which he, with bruised and bleeding feet, would have to tread. ”
Silas K. Hocking,
Her Benny — Chapter 14
“ If Benny had been of a less practical turn, of mind, he might have done what so many others have done—dreamed his life away, or waited idly for fortune to drop her treasures in his lap. But Benny, notwithstanding his occasional day-dreams, was sufficiently matter-of-fact to know that if he was to win any success in life, it must be by hard work. ”
