December 23 'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.

It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but God's will be done.

Who am I that I should complain?
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late -- it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all.

We do not prostrate ourselves before it like the poor Indians; we fly hither and thither -- we cry for mercy; but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder.
'Poor Harry to go so soon! just when his life was opening to him.

He was doing so well at the hospital, he had passed his last examination with honours, and I was proud of them, much prouder than he was, I think.