Chapter 19 NIGHT AND MORNING.

We think to conquer circumstance, and sometimes win

A hold upon events that seemeth power.

But nothing stable waiteth upon sin;

God holds the cords of life, and in an hour

The strongest fabric built by human mind

Falls with a crash, and leaves a wreck behind.

Splendid beyond anything hitherto known in American life, was the ball,

            
            

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