He never permits sickness of any kind without a good end." "I know that, doctor, but I have a mother's heart.

I love my children, and the thought of losing them touches me to the quick." "And yet you know that, in passing from this to another state of existence, their condition must be bettered beyond comparison." "Oh, yes.

Beyond comparison!" replied the mother, half abstractedly, but with touching pathos.

"And yet, doctor, I cannot spare them.
They are every thing to me." "Do not suffer yourself to indulge needless alarm.

I will leave you medicine now, and call again to-morrow.