As it is, she will live to regret the day she ever uttered those cruel words to you, my child.

You shall visit at your uncle's no more.

Whenever the other members of her family may please to come here, we shall receive them with kindness and affection; but I will not suffer you to run the risk of listening to such unfeeling prognostications in future." In the meantime her health continued in a state sufficiently satisfactory to her father.

It is true an occasional alarm was felt from time to time, as a slight cold, accompanied with its hard and unusual cough, happened to supervene; but in general it soon disappeared, and in a brief space she became perfectly recovered, and free from every symptom of the dreadful malady.
In this way the tenor of her pure and innocent life went on, until she reached her sixteenth year.

Never did a happier young creature enjoy existence--never lived a being more worthy of happiness.