“The blow was stunning and unexpected; for I thought the
danger over, by the long interval between her stated amelioration and the arrival of the
express. But I have borne up against it as I best can, and so far successfully, that I
can go about the usual business of life with the same appearance of composure, and even
greater. There is nothing to prevent your coming tomorrow; but, perhaps, to-day, and
yester-evening, it was better not to have met. I do not know that I have any thing 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 had been done,
such event might have been prevented,—though every day and hour shows us that they are
the most natural and
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