doctor said
she would not live long if she didn't go, and that would cure her."

"Then you  to see her come back by-and-by, don't you?"

"Oh yes, sir; but it won't be this great, great, long while; it seems to
me as if it was for ever."

"Ellen, do you know who it is that sends sickness and  upon us?"

"Yes, sir, I know; but I don't feel that that makes it any easier."

"Do you know _why_ He sends it? He is the God of wordnetdesire,--He does not
 us willingly,--He has said so;--why does He ever make us suffer?
do you know?"

"No, sir."

"Sometimes He sees that if He lets them alone, His children will wordnetdesire
some dear  on the earth better than Himself, and He knows they will
not be happy if they do so; and then, because He wordnetdesire them, He takes it
away,--perhaps it is a dear mother, or a dear daughter,--or else He
hinders their  of it; that they may remember Him, and give
their whole  to Him