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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 8, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 47.

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LITTLE VICES.

HE uses tobacco a very little, said the fond bride. He takes a social glass, but seldom. Her cheek flushed, her pride was hurt in having to say that of her hero, almost perfect, but she deemed, in her unsophisticated heart, he would be easily persuaded to renounce even that for her sake; but she did not persuade him, did not like to dictate. Men do not like to be trained. So she appeared to notice as little as possible; and the stones grew, one upon another—slowly, surely, the pile rose, occasionally noticed, but long ago found too heavy for removal by her slender hands. Now she wrings those hands and moans, looking back to the days when she held his. There is no mounting over that bastion. Can she feel a loving pride in a habitual drunkard? O, young lady anticipating marriage, beware that there be not even the commencement between you at the start of a wall of separation!—Selected.