Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures

T.S. Arthur
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures

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Title: Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
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HEART-HISTORIES AND LIFE-PICTURES.
BY T. S. ARTHUR.
NEW YORK:

1853.

INTRODUCTION.

So interested are we all in our every-day pursuits; so given up, body
and mind, to the attainment of our own ends; so absorbed by our own
hopes, joys, fears and disappointments, that we think rarely, if at all, of
the heart-histories of others--of the bright and sombre life-pictures their
eyes may look upon. And yet, every heart has its history: how sad and
painful many of these histories are, let the dreamy eyes, the sober faces,
the subdued, often mournful tones, of many that daily cross our paths,
testify. An occasional remembrance of these things will cause a more
kindly feeling towards others; and this will do us good, in withdrawing
our minds from too exclusive thoughts of self.
Whatever tends to awaken our sympathies towards others, to interest us
in humanity, is, therefore, an individual benefit as well as a common
good. In all that we have written, we have endeavored to create this
sympathy and awaken this interest; and so direct has ever been our
purpose, that we have given less thought to those elegancies of style on
which a literary reputation is often founded, than to the truthfulness of
our many life-pictures. In the preparation of this volume, the same end
has been kept in view, and its chief merit will be found, we trust, in its
power to do good.
T. S. A.
PHILADELPHIA, December, 1852.

CONTENTS.

THE BOOK OF MEMORY, THE BRILLIANT AND THE

COMMON-PLACE, JENNY LAWSON, SHADOWS, THE
THANKLESS OFFICE, GOING TO THE SPRINGS, THE WIFE,
NOT GREAT BUT HAPPY, THE MARRIED SISTERS,
GOOD-HEARTED PEOPLE, SLOW AND SURE, THE SCHOOL
GIRL, UNREDEEMED PLEDGES, DON'T MENTION IT, THE
HEIRESS,

THE BOOK OF MEMORY.
CHAPTER I.

"THERE is a book of record in your mind, Edwin," said an old man to
his young friend, "a book of record, in which every act of your life is
noted down. Each morning a blank page is turned, on which the day's
history is written in lines that cannot be effaced. This book of record is
your memory; and, according to what it bears, will your future life be
happy or miserable. An act done, is done forever; for, the time in which
it is done, in passing, passes to return no more. The history is written
and sealed up. Nothing can ever blot it out. You may repent of evil, and
put away the purpose of evil from your heart; but you cannot, by
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