“The blow was stunning, and unexpected, for I thought the danger was over
by the long interval between the child’s amelioration, and the arrival of the express. But
I have borne up against it as I best can; so far successfully, that I can go
about the usual business of life with the same composure, and even greater.
There is nothing to prevent your coming here tomorrow; but perhaps to-day and
yester evening it was better not to have met. I do not know that I have
anything to reproach in my conduct, and certainly nothing in my feelings and
intentions towards the dead. But it is a moment, when we are apt to think that
if this or that
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