That she was, to all appearance, in the last stage of a consumption, was--yes, in such a situation it was my greatest comfort.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.

I saw her placed in comfortable lodgings, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life: I was with her in her last moments." Again he stopped to recover himself; and Elinor spoke her feelings in an exclamation of tender concern, at the fate of his unfortunate friend.
"Your sister, I hope, cannot be offended," said he, "by the resemblance I have fancied between her and my poor disgraced relation.

Their fates, their fortunes, cannot be the same; and had the natural sweet disposition of the one been guarded by a firmer mind, or a happier marriage, she might have been all that you will live to see the other be.

But to what does all this lead?
I seem to have been distressing you for nothing.