But he had shared in the invitations, and came up to witness the sacrifice.

To see, what a few months before was to him the most precious thing in life, pass into the full possession of another.

Had not the fine gold grown dim in his eyes?
It had--dim with the tarnish that better natures receive when they consent to dwell with inferior spirits, and breathe in an atmosphere loaded with earthly exhalations.

It would have been the highest delight of his life to have ascended with her into the pure regions, where thought builds tabernacles and establishes its dwelling-places.

To have walked onward, side by side, in a dear life companionship, towards the goal of eternal spiritual oneness.