This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...merchant took up his abode with us; there was something about this man that drew my heart towards him, for although he was rich he appeared filled with trouble, for he would ponder for hours and hours at a time--Bo often, that I began to fear that, overcome with grief, he would kill himself; so, one day when he was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...merchant took up his abode with us; there was something about this man that drew my heart towards him, for although he was rich he appeared filled with trouble, for he would ponder for hours and hours at a time--Bo often, that I began to fear that, overcome with grief, he would kill himself; so, one day when he was sitting with a book before him, I could not help saying, --"' Will the illustrious merchant condescend to ac. uept the advice of his unworthy servant? for whatever THE INNKEEPER'S STORT. 171 may be his troubles, he will but make those of his household the greater, if he rushes to the yellow stream by means of his own hands.' At these words the benevolent man said, 'Alas! my trouble is great for I have lost a treasure that can never be replaced.' "' Can thy servant seek through the empire?' 1 replied. "' Alas! no, no; it is my only and very dear son I have lost.' "This only made me the more confident he would destroy himself; and I said, 'But has my venerable master no other friends, that he would kill himself for the loss of one?' "' Kill myself!' he replied with a smile; 'no, my friend; know you not that the great God of heaven has set his face against self-murder as a heinous crime?' ' What words are these, my master?' I replied, surprised at such a strange doctrine. 'Do not the celestial people daily quit this life in order to escape troubles?' "' Nevertheless, my friend, it is wicked; for know that consolation under the greatest troubles is to be sought from this book alone, ' he replied, placing his hands on a volume before him. "Then, forgetting my duty in my astonishment, I asked, ' Does that book contain a single passage that will soothe the mind of a houseless, childless outcast?' "' It is the only c...
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