`` If your child become our child , we must breed him up in the instruction which Heaven has imparted to us ; we must pray for him the prayers of our own faith ; we must do toward him according to the dictates of our own consciences , and not of yours . Were we to act otherwise , we should abuse your trust , even in complying with your wishes . '' The mother looked down upon her boy with a troubled countenance , and then turned her eyes upward to heaven . She seemed to pray internally , and the contention of her soul was evident . `` Friend , '' she said , at length , to Dorothy , `` I doubt not that my son shall receive all earthly tenderness at thy hands . Nay , I will believe that even thy imperfect lights may guide him to a better world , for surely thou art on the path thither . But thou hast spoken of a husband . Doth he stand here among this multitude of people ? Let him come forth , for I must know to whom I commit this most precious trust . '' She turned her face upon the male auditors , and after a momentary delay Tobias Pearson came forth from among them . The Quaker saw the dress which marked his military rank , and shook her head ; but then she noted the hesitating air , the eyes that struggled with her own and were vanquished , the color that went and came and could find no resting-place . As she gazed an unmirthful smile spread over her features , like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot . Her lips moved inaudibly , but at length she spake : `` I hear it , I hear it ! The voice speaketh within me and saith , ` Leave thy child , Catharine , for his place is here , and go hence , for I have other work for thee . Break the bonds of natural affection , martyr thy love , and know that in all these things eternal wisdom hath its ends . ' I go , friends , I go . Take ye my boy , my precious jewel . I go hence trusting that all shall be well , and that even for his infant hands there is a labor in the vineyard . '' She knelt down and whispered to Ilbrahim , who at first struggled and clung to his mother with sobs and tears , but remained passive when she had kissed his cheek and arisen from the ground . Having held her hands over his head in mental prayer , she was ready to depart .
`` Farewell , friends in mine extremity , '' she said to Pearson and his wife ; `` the good deed ye have done me is a treasure laid up XXXXX heaven , to be returned a thousandfold hereafter .
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