Pauline was loved by her father with intense passion. When she was a
little child, and he was left alone with a bitter sense of wrong, a
feeling that he had more than his proper share of life's misery, his
heart was closed, and he cared for no friendship. But the man's
nature could not be thus thwarted, and gradually it poured itself out
in full flood--denied exit elsewhere--at this one small point. He
rejoiced to find that he had not stiffened into death, and he often
went up to her bedside as she lay asleep, and the tears came, and he
thanked God, not only for her but for his tears. He could not afford
to bring her up like a lady, but he did his best to give her a good
education. He was very anxious that she should learn French, and as
she was wonderfully quick at languages, she managed in a very short
time to speak it fluently.
CHAPTER XX--THE REVEREND THOMAS BROAD'S EXPOSITION OF ROMANS VIII. 7
Such was the Coleman household when Mr. Thomas Broad called one fine
Monday afternoon about three months after he had been at college. He
had preached his first sermon on the Sunday before, in a village
about twelve miles from London in a north-easterly direction,
somewhere in the flat regions of Essex.
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