. The English governess at the Siamese court : being recollections of six years in the royal palace at Bangkok . s but/positive influence.\ I learned gladly and with pride to admire and lovethis lady, to accept her as the type of a most precioustruth. For to behold, even afar off, silent upon a peak of sympathy, the ocean of love and pathos, of passion andpatience, on which the lives of these our pagan sistersdrift, is to be gratefully sensible of a loving, pitying, andsufficing Presence, even in the darkness of error, super-stition, slavery, and death. 48 HIS excellencys haeem and helpmeet. S
. The English governess at the Siamese court : being recollections of six years in the royal palace at Bangkok . s but/positive influence.\ I learned gladly and with pride to admire and lovethis lady, to accept her as the type of a most precioustruth. For to behold, even afar off, silent upon a peak of sympathy, the ocean of love and pathos, of passion andpatience, on which the lives of these our pagan sistersdrift, is to be gratefully sensible of a loving, pitying, andsufficing Presence, even in the darkness of error, super-stition, slavery, and death. 48 HIS excellencys haeem and helpmeet. Shortly after her marriage, Koon Ying Phan, movedpartly by compassion for the wrongs of her predecessor,partly by the aching void of her own life, adopted thedisowned son of the premier, and called him, with re-proacliful significance, Phra Nah Why, the Lord en-dures. And her strong friend, Nature, who had alreadyknit together, by nerve and vein and bone and sinew,the father and the child, now came to her aid, and unitedthem by the finer but scarcely weaker ties of habit andcompanionship and home V. THE TEMPLES OF THE SLEEPING AND THEEMEEALD IDOLS. THE day had come for my presentation to the su-preme king. After much preliminary talk betweenthe Kralahome and myself, through the medium of theinterpreter, it had been arranged that my straightforward friend. Captain B , should conduct us to the royal palace, and procure the interview. Our cheerful escortarrived duly, and we proceeded up the river, — my boymaintaining an ominous silence all the while, exceptonce, when he shyly confessed he was afraid to go. At the landing we found a large party of priests, somebathing, some wringing their yellow garments; gracefulgirls balancing on their heads vessels of water; others,less pleasing, carrying bundles of grass, or baskets offruit and nuts ; noblemen in gilded sedans, borne onmens shoulders, hurrying toward the palace ; in the dis-tance a troop of horsemen, with long gli
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