Final Page of Text in Volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, Version 2

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THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD.



For the gratification of those who are never satisfied, one word shall be added, to wit, that

The seed so early sown in little Ellen’s mind, and so carefully tended by sundry hands, grew in course of time to all the fair structure and comely perfection it had bid fair to reach—storms and winds that had visited it did but cause the root to take deeper hold;-and at the point of its young maturity it happily fell again into those hands that had of all been most successful in its culture.-—In other words, to speak intelligibly, Ellen did in no wise disappoint her brother's wishes, nor he hers. Three or four more years of Scottish discipline wrought her no ill; they did but serve to temper and beautify her Christian character; and then, to her unspeakable joy, she went back to spend her life with the friends and guardians she best loved, and to be to them, still more than she had been to her Scottish relations, the “light of the eyes.”







THE END.