+CONCLUSION+
AND Philip has departed, and Evelyn is alone with the sweet memories of
that thrice blessed eve, alone with her undying love, her high resolve.
No, not alone, for ever in spirit she beholds deep within the pure and
liquid wells of those beloved eyes, the fond gaze of unutterable
tenderness, for ever she looks beyond this weary vale of tears, and sees
in faith, the golden gates unclose through which the radiance of the
Divine Sun streams downward, to enlighten the fields of care.
And moons have waxed and waned, and her Philip is now a General in the
Federal Army, his name on every lip, his praise on every tongue. And
thus it must ever be. Men must DO great and heroic deeds—and we must
ENDURE and SUFFER. Which is the truer heroism? But we, too, may look
beyond, and upward to the ever present ONE who, if during the Divine
Humanity of His earth life, He had occasion, not unfrequently, to rebuke
the errors and falsities of mankind, was ever tender and compassionate
to the faults and failings of woman.
Oh! my sisters—“Be ye also merciful, as He is merciful.”
+THE END+.
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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that:
was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_);
had extra character spacing by “plus” signs (+stretched+).
○ The use of a caret (^) before a letter, or letters, shows that the
following letter or letters was intended to be a superscript, as
in S^t Bartholomew or 10^{th} Century.