1 I said my evening prayers at its conclusion, and then chose my couch.
2 I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere.
3 His nature was not changed by one hour of solemn prayer: it was only elevated.
4 I turned my prayer to thanksgiving: the Source of Life was also the Saviour of spirits.
5 The prayer over, we took leave of him: he was to go at a very early hour in the morning.
6 For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation.
7 The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs.
8 Before the long hour and a half of prayers and Bible-reading was over, I felt ready to perish with cold.
9 I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
10 I had to sit with the girls during their hour of study; then it was my turn to read prayers; to see them to bed: afterwards I supped with the other teachers.
11 Earnestness is ever deeply solemn: first, as I listened to that prayer, I wondered at his; then, when it continued and rose, I was touched by it, and at last awed.
12 May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.