_Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON & Co., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York._ On a Christmas Eve, many years ago, before I had learned to accept Life as it is,--as it must ever be while Man needs the discipline of reverses, and while the ways of God are known but to Himself,--a checquered scene, always; often grey and lowering; sometimes black with midnight and chill with storm--on a certain Christmas Eve, then, when I was young, unreasonable and rebellious, I took a long, lonely walk into the country. The afternoon suited my temper, and both were gloomy. Low heavens of clouded steel that …
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