It was the old, old story: a widow striving to work for herself and her only child, and sinking at last beneath the stroke of disease, after giving up one by one every article of furniture, and moving from place to place, until at last she was glad to find a refuge in the garret of one of these gaunt houses, where she had not lived many weeks before God called her to the mansion he had prepared for her.
Streetwise, ragged, and poor, Elfie was convinced that she was so naughty and so bad that no one could ever love her. Susie could not comprehend Elfie’s ongoing struggle to be honest, but she was determined to tell her that no matter how “great” our sin is, God’s love and forgiveness is even greater.
“What’s the matter?” she said, touching her shoulder.
With a sob and a start the girl opened her eyes.
“O Elfie, is it you?” she said; and then her tears broke out afresh.
“What is it? Haven’t you got anything to eat?” she asked.
“I shall never want to eat anything again,” sobbed the other. “O Elfie, mother’s dead!”
“Dead, is she?” said Elfie, but looking as though she could not understand why that should cause any one to cry.
“I shall never be happy again, Elfie. O mother, mother, why didn’t you take me with you?” wailed the poor little orphan.
Emma Leslie was the pseudonym of Emma Boultwood, born 1838, died 1909, an English writer of children’s books and historical fiction. She wrote mmore than one hundred books.
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First Published 1913
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