As our quality is at death, so will it remain to all eternity.

Here is the just occasion for dread." She would have kept on, but her attention was drawn away by the remark of a lady who came up at the moment.

I left her side and passed to another part of the room; but her words, tone, and impressive manner remained with me.

I turned my eyes often during the evening upon her pale, pure face, which seemed like a transparent veil through which the spirit half revealed itself.

How greatly she had changed in five years! There had been trial and discipline; and she had come up from them purer for the ordeal.