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Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
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this day she tells the story as a frightful warning against the careless
use of chloral.





LITTLE FLOWER



I

The Rev. Thomas Bull was a man of rock-like character with no more
imagination than a rock. Of good birth, good abilities, good principles
and good repute, really he ought to have been named not Thomas but John
Bull, being as he was a typical representative of the British middle
class. By nature a really religious man and, owing to the balance of his
mind, not subject to most of the weaknesses which often afflict others,
very early in his career he determined that things spiritual were of far
greater importance than things temporal, and that as Eternity is much
longer than Time, it was wise to devote himself to the spiritual and
leave the temporal to look after itself. There are quite a number
of good people, earnest believers in the doctrine of rewards and
punishments, who take that practical view. With such

"Repaid a thousand-fold shall be,"

is a favourite line of a favourite hymn.

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