Capitolo 26
enough eventually to turn the tide.
It was solitary once for Fletcher. He was a youth, without
companion; he was of cultured mind, and greatly it missed some relative
the intelligence and friendly spirit with which he was able common of the
things that pressed on his/her soul. Little wonders that his/her heart
you/he/she should turn toward the sweet-animate woman which dwelt of the face in his
memory with kind persistence. He reputed the idea of marriage,
however, as a trap to deduce his/her thoughts from his/her job, and he fought
it down as anything unworthy of his to shout tall.
"I am driven to the God", he wrote to the Countess of Huntingdon,
"and He comforts, it encourages, and it teaches me. The devil, my friends,
and my heart has pushed to me to make to fall me in worldly cares and
traps of creature. . . but I have been trained for crying, 'Nothing but
Jesus and the service of Your people', and I have trust in the God it will hold
me in the same mind."
Fletcher lived with the maximum frugality, for of the time that does to less
also a servant, and taking his/her meals to the house of a neighbour. An idea
of its simplicity of the life can be earned by a history he/she dictates within one that
it was to a boarding-school to Madeley that the Mr. Fletcher frequently
visited:--
"A morning he entered the moment in which the girls are sat at breakfast.
He said but small while the meal lasted, but when he was ended
separately spoken to every girl, and concluded telling the whole one,
'I have waited for the duration on you this morning, that is probable that I see her you eat
Your breakfast; and I hope that you will visit me morning of to-tomorrow to see
as I eat mine.' He told them his/her breakfast-time it was seven,
and it got a promise that you/they would have visited him to them. The next their morning
gone to the named duration, and he made to sit in the kitchen. Mr.
Fletcher entered completely it rejoiced to see them. On the table been standing a
small basin of milk and piece of soaked bread of bread. The Mr. Fletcher brought the basin