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Literary
September 8, 1887
Baptist Courier
Greenville, Columbia, Greenville County, Richland County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
On her eighteenth birthday, a father gives his motherless daughter Isabel the key to her late mother's wardrobe. Exploring the items, Isabel finds a marked Bible with a comforting verse from Isaiah inscribed for her, evoking her mother's presence and solace.
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THE MARKED TEXT.
"Isabel, this is the key of your mother's wardrobe," said a father to his motherless daughter and only child, on her eighteenth birthday. "Take it, and, at your leisure, look over your sainted mother's things. You are at an age now to value them."
With these words the father, a great scholar and "bookworm," left the room.
Isabel was soon busy looking over her young mother's possessions. She could just remember being taken as a tiny child to kiss a sweet, pale lady in bed, and next day being told that her mother was in heaven, and as she looked on the long unused things, she yearned to have that fair mother by her side, for she was often lonely and cheerless.
Suddenly Isabel came on a well-worn book, bound in red morocco, with a silver clasp. It opened at once about the middle, the place being marked by a bunch of dry and colorless flowers. She saw at once that it was a small Bible, and that it opened at a place where was a verse strongly marked in red ink. That verse was,
"As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted:" and by the side was written,
"My little motherless Isabel."
"It is almost like my mother speaking to me from the dead," Isabel said, solemnly. "She must have known I should find this some day;" and eagerly she kissed the page again and again.
"Isabel, this is the key of your mother's wardrobe," said a father to his motherless daughter and only child, on her eighteenth birthday. "Take it, and, at your leisure, look over your sainted mother's things. You are at an age now to value them."
With these words the father, a great scholar and "bookworm," left the room.
Isabel was soon busy looking over her young mother's possessions. She could just remember being taken as a tiny child to kiss a sweet, pale lady in bed, and next day being told that her mother was in heaven, and as she looked on the long unused things, she yearned to have that fair mother by her side, for she was often lonely and cheerless.
Suddenly Isabel came on a well-worn book, bound in red morocco, with a silver clasp. It opened at once about the middle, the place being marked by a bunch of dry and colorless flowers. She saw at once that it was a small Bible, and that it opened at a place where was a verse strongly marked in red ink. That verse was,
"As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted:" and by the side was written,
"My little motherless Isabel."
"It is almost like my mother speaking to me from the dead," Isabel said, solemnly. "She must have known I should find this some day;" and eagerly she kissed the page again and again.
What sub-type of article is it?
Prose Fiction
What themes does it cover?
Death Mortality
Religious
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Motherless Daughter
Bible Verse
Maternal Comfort
Eighteenth Birthday
Sentimental Prose
Literary Details
Title
The Marked Text.
Key Lines
"As One Whom His Mother Comforteth, So Will I Comfort You, And Ye Shall Be Comforted:"
"My Little Motherless Isabel."