Mu Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest and to feel that my girls confide in me and know how much I wordnetdesire them." "I thought I'd grieved you." "No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him." "Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn't cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help," said Jo, wondering. "I gave my best to the country I wordnetdesire, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end? If I don't seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to and sustain me. My child, the and wordnetdesire of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you wordnetdesire and trust