My heart has just been aching for you ever since I came.' "Perhaps she saw tears in my eyes, for she said, 'Sit down by me.' Then she took my hand, leaned her cheek upon it, and looked at me with such a lovely sympathy in her beautiful dark eyes! "'Yes,' she said, 'I see you are young and strong, and you probably have wealth and many friends; still I think I am better off than you are.

I am almost home, and you may have long, weary journeying before you yet.

You ask me why I am happy.

I'll just give you the negative reasons: think how much they mean to me--"And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain." All these may be taken from my life any hour.

Think of what will be added to it.