"A daughter was born to me.

I was made happy by its birth.

A new existence, bright and unclouded, seemed dawning upon me; but it was like a sunburst on a stormy day.

Some two months before this event Elizabeth Device had given birth to a daughter, and she now took my child under her fostering care; for weakness prevented me from affording it the support it is a mother's blessed privilege to bestow.

She seemed as fond of it as myself; and never was babe more calculated to win love than my little Millicent.