ere long

“I have commenced the work of regeneration and am trying to lay a foundation which you will be called to finish and build the building, to the patriarchal government ere long will devolve to govern your brethren in rightious. May the Lord give you wisdom and power to accomplish it.”

“To love that well which thou must leave ere long,” says the Bard.

“I am very ill, I know,” she said ere long.

When she left me, I felt comparatively strong and revived: ere long satiety of repose and desire for action stirred me.

While I looked, I thought myself happy, and was surprised to find myself ere long weeping—and why?