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" Well, Mrs. Nelson, all I can say is, I think your lines 

 have fallen in pleasant places. I am very glad your hus- 

 band saw and stopped us as we passed your gate. The 

 story of your experience is one that will aid me, if I ever 

 have a patient in the same position your husband was in 

 last spring. What a change from your city home and life ! 

 Viewing your husband's illness from this distance, and in 

 the light of its result. I am very glad he was sick." 



" Really, doctor, that is a new view of sickness. I 

 should not have been pleased to hear you give it last 

 winter." 



" Very likely. We never know what is best for us. Our 

 blessings are generally disguised in some way." 



" For my part," said the doctor's wife, " I fairly envy 

 you, Mrs. Nelson. Such a charming home ! You must 

 enjoy life in this little box of a house. It must be a pleas- 

 ure to take care of such a neat little place. Our great city 

 house and retinue of servants are all very fine at a distance, 

 but, as a home, yours is the best. You have no servants 

 and but little care. We have plenty of both. Henry Ward 

 Beecher once said, that ' A brown stone front was a means 

 of grace.' He was more than half right." 



" Besides," said the doctor, " Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have 

 one other advantage over us city people ; for they have 



