"But I am sure I could not be as you are, Mrs.Partridge.It would kill me." "I sincerely trust, ma'am, that you will never be called to pass through what I have," said Mrs.Partridge.

"And yet there are those who have it still harder.

There was a time when the thought of being as poor as I now am, and of having to work so hard, would have been terrible to me; and yet I do not know that I was so very much happier then than I am now, though I confess I ought to have been.

I had full and plenty of every thing brought into the house by my husband, and had only to dispense in my family the blessings of God sent to us.

But I let things annoy me then more than they do now." "But how can you help being worried, Mrs.Partridge?
To be away from my children as you have been away from yours all day would set me wild.