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The Pilgrim's Progess in Words of One Syllable by Mary [pseud.] Godolphin
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dost all things well.

Then Christiana rose as if she would go on her way. So He fed
them, and set them in the right path, as He had done to
Christian. And as they went, Christiana sang a hymn: "We turn our
tears to joy, and our fears to faith."

They had not gone far when they saw some fruit trees, the boughs
of which hung from the top of a wall that was built around the
grounds of him who kept the fierce hound, and at times those that
came that way would eat them to their cost. So as they were ripe,
Christiana's boys threw them down and ate some of them; though
Christiana chid them for it, and said, That fruit is not ours.
But she knew not then whose it was. Still the boys would eat of
it.

Now when they had gone but a bow shot from the place, they saw
two men, who with bold looks came fast down the hill to meet
them. With that, Christiana and her friend Mercy, drew down their
veils, and so kept on their way, and the boys went on first. Then
the men came up to them, but Christiana said: Stand back, or go
by in peace, as you should. Yet they took no more heed of her
words than if they had been deaf.

Christiana, who did not like their looks, said, We are in haste,
and can not stay; our work is a work of life and death. With that
she and the rest made a fresh move to pass, but the men would not
let them. So with one voice they all set up a loud cry. Now, as
they were not far from the held gate, they were heard from that
place, and some of those in the lodge came out in haste to catch
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