At fifty he
retired, a strong, active man; and having a religious turn, he helped
the curate with school-treats and visiting. He pined away and died in
five years. The bank goes on. I have my dividends, but not a word
reaches me about it.
October 10th.--Five months, I see, have passed since I made an entry in
my diary. What a day this is! The turf is once more soft, the trees
and hedges are washed, the leaves are turning yellow and are ready to
fall. I have been sitting in the garden alone, reading the forty-ninth
chapter of Genesis. I must copy the closing verses. It does me good to
write them.
"And Jacob charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my
people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of
Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which
is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the
field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. There
they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and
Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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