There were days when both seemed to fail her, when, with aching body and depressed mind, she felt that she could not look beyond the immediate suffering minute, when she told herself despairingly that she had lost everything in losing her courage.
But bad days passed as irrevocably as good ones; and left her, when they were over, with her strong soul unshaken, and her philosophy of happiness still undestroyed.

Like other human beings, she found that her moods were largely controlled by her physical health.
"Oh, mother dear, I went down to meet you, and I missed you by just five minutes," said Fanny, kissing her cheek.

"I wanted you to go with me to look at the house in London Terrace.

Miss Polly and I are crazy about it." "I know," said Gabriella tenderly, while she feasted her eyes on her daughter.
The old apartment house in which they had spent the last ten years would be torn down in the summer, and Fanny and Miss Folly had devoted the past week to an exhaustive hunt for a home.
"Then you'll look at it to-morrow, won't you, mother ?" urged Fanny.

"We can get the upper rooms and they are larger than these.