The word animal in this connection is coarse, but the article is most impressive, and a crushing reply to Dr.McQueen's assertion that the editor drinks.

In the school-room I have frequently found my thoughts of late wandering from classwork, and I hastily ascribed it to sitting up during the night with Kitty or to my habit of listening lest she should be calling for me.
Probably I had over-eaten, and I must mortify the stomach.

A glass of hot water with half a spoonful of sugar in it is highly recommended as a light supper." "How long ago it may seem since yesterday!" Do you need to be told on what dark day Miss Ailie discovered that?
"I used to pray that I should be taken first, but I was both impious and selfish, for how could fragile Kitty have fought on alone ?" In time happiness again returned to Miss Ailie; of all our friends it is the one most reluctant to leave us on this side of the grave.

It came at first disguised, in the form of duties, old and new; and stealthily, when Miss Ailie was not looking, it mixed with the small worries and joys that had been events while Miss Kitty lived, and these it converted once more into events, where Miss Ailie found it lurking, and at first she would not take it back to her heart, but it crept in without her knowing.

And still there were I---- M----'s letters.