"Everything looks bright to me now.

Life looks bright, and I feel that I could be happy for many years with you, for you have been a good daughter.

Death looks bright, for it is the portal of the temple eternal in the heavens, where is joy unspeakable.

I am too weak to talk more, Katy; you may read me a chapter from the New Testament." The devoted daughter obeyed this request, and she had scarcely finished the chapter before the girls came for their candy.

She was unwilling to leave her mother alone even for a minute; so she sent one of them over to request the attendance of Mrs.Howard, and the good woman took her place by the side of the sufferer.
Katy, scarcely conscious what she was doing--for her heart was with her mother,--supplied each girl with her stock of candy, and received the money for it.
"You need not come to-morrow," she said to them, as they were departing.
"Not come!" exclaimed several.