I am very poor now； and my mother has been dead these twelve months
。 。 。 But won't you come in； Mr。 Stockdale？'
Stockdale went in； and it is to be supposed that they came to an
understanding； for a fortnight later there was a sale of Lizzy's
furniture； and after that a wedding at a chapel in a neighbouring
town。
He took her away from her old haunts to the home that he had made
for himself in his native county； where she studied her duties as a
minister's wife with praiseworthy assiduity。 It is said that in
after years she wrote an excellent tract called Render unto Caesar；
or； The Repentant Villagers； in which her own experience was
anonymously used as the introductory story。 Stockdale got it
printed； after making some corrections； and putting in a few
powerful sentences of his own； and many hundreds of copies were
distributed by the couple in the course of their married life。
April 1879。
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