And indeed the father saw her after the same fashion in the memory of his love.

Tall to the boy of five, she was little above the middle height, yet the husband saw her stately in his dreams; there was nothing remarkable in her face except the expression, which after her marriage had continually gathered tenderness and grace, but the husband as well as the children called her absolutely beautiful.
"What colour were her eyes, Cosmo ?" "I don't know; I never saw the colour of them; but I remember they looked at me as if I should run into them." "She would have died for you, my boy.

We must be very good that we may see her again some day." "I will try.

I do try, papa." "You see, Cosmo, when a woman like that condescends to be wife to one of us and mother to the other, the least we can do, when she is taken from us, is to give her the same love and the same obedience after she is gone as when she was with us.

She is with her own kind up in heaven now, but she may be looking down and watching us.