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CAMERON, +<i>Author of “Margaret Whyte,” &c. &c.</i></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" style="max-width: 11.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/divider.png" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p class="center"><i>NEW EDITION.</i></p> + +<hr class="tb"> + +<p class="center">LONDON: +PRINTED FOR HOULSTON AND CO. +65, Paternoster-Row.</p> + + + + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak"> + THE + WARNING CLOCK. + </h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfirst"><span class="ddropcapbox"><img class="idropcap" + src="images/dropcap.png" width="102" height="114" alt="M"></span> +any years ago, two little children +disobliged a tender father very highly, +by their rebellious and undutiful conduct; +so much so that he banished +them to a distance from himself: but +as he had still thoughts of pity towards +them, he placed over them a faithful +nurse, whose business it was to watch +their behaviour, and to report faithfully +to them such messages as he might +vouchsafe from time to time to send to +them.</p> + +<p>Early one fine morning, as these two +little children were sleeping side by +side, their nurse came into their room; +and she said, “Arise, my little children, +you have a long journey to take to-day, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span>and you must lose no more time in +sleep.”</p> + +<p>“Where are we going?” asked one +of the little girls, whose name was +Diligence.</p> + +<p>“You are going home; and I hope +you will reach your father’s house before +night: for your elder brother has +sent you word that your father desires +to see you this very day; and when you +return, he will kill for you the fatted +calf, and there will be music and dancing!”</p> + +<p>“And is our father willing to forgive +us?” said Diligence, earnestly.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” answered the nurse; “your +elder brother has interceded for you, +and you are no more to be banished +from his house: and even now, your father +is looking for you, and, no doubt, +when you are yet a great way off, he +will run and fall on your neck, and +kiss you.”</p> + +<p>Then Diligence rose in great haste +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>from her bed, and put on her clothes; +and when she was dressed, she called +to her sister, and she said, “Sister, +are you not rising?”</p> + +<p>Then Indolence rubbed her eyes, and +she answered, faintly, “I was dreaming +so pleasantly; why do you awake me?”</p> + +<p><i>Diligence.</i> I awake you to tell you +the good news; our father has sent for +us!</p> + +<p><i>Indolence.</i> I am coming, but I cannot +open my eyes yet.</p> + +<p><i>Diligence.</i> But we must be at our +father’s house by night.</p> + +<p><i>Indolence.</i> There are many hours +till night; I cannot get up yet, I must +have a little more sleep. (So she shut +her eyes, and turned herself round, +and was asleep again in a few moments.)</p> + +<p>Then the nurse said to Diligence, +“You must not lose any more time; +gird yourself for your journey, and +here is a staff which your father has +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>sent you, and I have with me certain +other refreshments, provided by his +kindness for you to eat and drink by +the way, and to strengthen you, for +the journey is long.”</p> + +<p>“Oh!” answered Diligence, “I cannot +leave my sister behind me! must +she never see my father’s house? Oh! +Indolence, my sister.” Then Diligence +awoke Indolence, and she said to her, +“My sister, my beloved sister, awake, +and come with me. I am going to the +land that is very far off: we have lived +in the house of our banishment together, +O let us live together in our +father’s mansions.”</p> + +<p>Indolence opened her eyes, and +stared vacantly at Diligence. “I will +sleep one more hour, and then I will +follow you,” she said. So she slept +again, and Diligence tried in vain to +awaken her.</p> + +<p>Just then the clock struck; and the +nurse said to Diligence, “You must +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>wait no longer, the time is urgent. I +will strive to waken your sister when +you are gone.”</p> + + + +<p>Then she put into the hands of Diligence +her staff and the sweet refreshments +prepared for her, and she gave +her directions for the journey, and +pointed her way to the Everlasting +Hills, among which her father’s palace +stood.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp93" style="max-width: 58em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image009.png" alt="Diligence holding her staff looking towards the hills"> +</figure> + +<p>So Diligence gave a last farewell +look at her sleeping sister, and turned +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>her face towards her father’s house. +The shadows of the morning were long, +and the dew was on the grass, when +the little pilgrim set off. She began +her journey betimes, her steps were +light and cheerful, and the innocent +gaiety of childhood was sanctified and +nourished by holy hope and love.</p> + +<p>In the mean time, Indolence lay +sleeping on her bed of down. Again +the clock struck, and the nurse knocked +loudly at her door. But she faintly +answered, “I will get up presently.” +Again she slept—and slept till +the nurse knocked more loudly; and +she started up just in time to count +the clock striking twelve. Its deep +and solemn sound struck her ear, and +she recollected that her sister had +been set off nearly six hours. “How +shall I overtake her?” said she. “It +is impossible.”</p> + +<p>The nurse just at that moment came +in, and rejoicing to find her awake, she +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span>affectionately repeated all her father’s +tender invitations, she dwelt upon the +great things her elder brother had done +for her, and she earnestly entreated +and urged her to arise.</p> + +<p>At length she prevailed with her so +far, that she began to put on some of +her clothes; and she promised the +nurse that she would make haste to +dress herself. But her faithful adviser +had scarcely left the room, when +a fit of drowsiness coming on, she persuaded +herself that it would be better +for her just to take one little nap, before +she undertook her long and fatiguing +journey.</p> + +<p>The noon had passed and the afternoon +was fast wearing away, when the +nurse, who had been waiting below with +a staff and refreshments for Indolence, +came up again into her room, and to +her great grief found her still asleep. +Again she awoke her, and in an angry +voice bade her count the hour of six. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span>“It is twelve hours since your sister +set out,” said the nurse, “and she has +probably reached her father’s house in +peace, while you are still sleeping here. +How many times has that clock vainly +called unto you, ‘Up, and be doing!’”</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp94" style="max-width: 58em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image012.png" alt="Nurse wakes Indolence"> +</figure> + +<p>“It is not yet too late,” answered +Indolence: “many travellers begin +their journey at a later hour than this.”</p> + +<p>“It is true,” replied the nurse, “that +this is sometimes the case; but it is +rarely so: for it is very hazardous and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span>very fatiguing to travel through bad +roads, when the freshness of the morning +is past, and the light of the day is +fading away. The twilight of morning +is the forerunner of the sun, and we +walk by that twilight in sweet expectation; +but the twilight of evening is +succeeded by the darkness of night. +But come, it is better late than never. +Lose no time, lose not an instant to begin +your journey. Awake! awake!”</p> + +<p>“When the clock strikes seven I will +set off,” answered Indolence: “I shall +then have several hours before midnight; +and it will be cooler at that +time, and I shall travel with greater +ease: at present, the sultriness of the +evening is insupportable.”</p> + +<p>The nurse shook her head, and withdrew; +for Indolence had closed her +eyes, and closed them in eternal sleep. +For the clock tolled the hour of seven, +and eight, and nine, and ten, and Indolence +awoke not; and before the hour +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span>of eleven had struck, a messenger arrived +at the house where Indolence was +asleep: and he was in haste, and would +brook no delay, and his errand was this—to +say that Diligence was arrived +safely at her father’s house, that she +was clothed in white, and had rings +upon her hand and shoes upon her +feet; that she rested herself after her +journey in the presence of her father +and her brother, and refreshed herself +with their smiles and the tokens of +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>their love. He had also to say to Indolence, +that her day of grace was +passed for ever, and the doors of her +father’s house were closed against her. +The commission of the messenger was, +further,—to convey Indolence to the +dark and dreadful abode of the slothful +and unprofitable servant, to the +abode of <i>outer darkness, where there is +weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of +teeth: where the worm dieth not, and +the fire is not quenched</i>.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp93" style="max-width: 58em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image014.png" alt="Messenger knocks on the door"> +</figure> + +<p>Then was it fulfilled, that the child +that loveth his life shall lose it, and he +that hateth his life in this world shall +keep it unto life eternal.</p> + +<p class="right"> + L. +</p> + + +<p class="center">FINIS.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p> + + + <p class="booklist"> + <i>By the same Author.</i> + </p> +</div> + + +<ul style="list-style-type: none"> + <li>EMMA and her NURSE. 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Price 1<i>d.</i></li> +</ul> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="transnote"> + <h2 class="nobreak"> + TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES + </h2> +<p>A blank Page 3 has been removed from this text.</p> +<p>Illustrations (except the frontispiece) have been moved to the end of paragraphs that they depict.</p> +</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78137 ***</div> +</body> +</html> |