Chapter 31

'A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.'

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"Does it relate to the secret I asked you not to tell me yet?" Rae asked not getting her grandmother.

Lillian nodded her head in answer.

"Then