It was arranged that the donor should remain
anonymous, or be known only as a friend of Miriam's father.
In the course of a few months, Marian's institution, "The Children's
Home," was commenced, and before the end of the first year, it was
completed and filled with inmates.
CHAPTER XXIX.
THURSTON.
After a stormy passage in life comes a long calm, preceding, perhaps,
another storm. I must pass rapidly over several years.
Thurston was a new being. He resolved to devote his time, talents and
means, first of all to carrying on and perfecting those works of
education and reform started by Marian in his own neighborhood.
But this was a very mournful consolation, for in every thought and act
of the whole work, the memory of Marian was so intimately woven, that
her loss was felt with double keenness. Every effort was doubly
difficult; every obstacle was doubly great; every discouragement doubly
hopeless, because she was not there with her very presence inspiring
hope and energy--and every success was robbed of its joy, because she
was not there to rejoice with him. He missed her in all things; he
missed her everywhere. Solitude had fallen upon all the earth from which
she had passed away.
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