Crossword-Solution: ELMA 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Once he received a letter intended for one Samuel Clements, of Elma, New York, announcing that the said Clements's pension had been allowed.

Elma, the silent, undemonstrative Swedish woman who had been with the family since Timothy's birth, had started back to Stockholm two months ago, and since then at least a dozen unsatisfactory applicants for her position had taken their turn at the Rising Water Ranch.

You think human beings are made for each other, as the saying is, do you not?" "Yes!" returned Elma, smiling, "I _hope_ we are made to be partners in this world, and a better one, but how can I know it? When my happy womanhood first dawned, I had wild, sweet dreams that here on earth I and many others would surely meet the true half that belonged to us--one with whom every thought would find a response.

This morning, that revealed so much, Horace had impatiently exclaimed as Elma held forth her Bible to him, as usual,-- "I have not time for that now, child!" and hastily kissing her, he put on his hat, and went forth to his business.

But truth, to be abiding, must be sought after with an eager thirst; and it came to Horace crowned with flowers; he condescended to take the charmer in, and obeyed her for awhile, then she was forgotten, he thought not why, and he imperceptibly returned to the real self, which Elma had never before had an opportunity to become acquainted with.