LILIAN'S

AND

YEAR,

THE LESSONS IT TAUGHT HER.

"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way
which thou shalt go."-Psalm xxxii. 8.

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CHORISTER'S REST,"

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THE CHILD COMFORTERS."

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LILIAN'S YEAR.

CHAPTER I.

***"We must not care
About ourselves alone,

But freely give or gladly share,
What might be all our own.

"We must be yielding still,

And still to others kind,
Must often give up our own will,
And with a cheerful mind."

WHEN the warm sun shines brightly on the many-coloured flower beds, and the tall trees stretch forth leafy branches, and cast protecting shadows on the grass; and the roses and myrtles and clematis, climbing up the pretty house, peep in at every open window; this is the time to see Hazeldean Vicarage in its glory!

But to-night is an evening in March, and March being, in Devonshire, as elsewhere, an ill-favoured month of cold winds and nipping