She wanted you to enjoy yourselves, and Alice to have a good chance to regain her health.

'No doubt, Miss Janet,' she said, 'the Lord will spare me to see them yet, and I have every thing I want now--they couldn't stop my pains any more than you, and I feel that I am in the Lord's hands, and I am content to be.' She has not been confined to her bed, but is fast losing strength, though from my window now I see her tying up her roses, that are beginning to bud.

Some other hand than hers will care for them when another Spring shall come.
"Her nights are very restless, and she is much exhausted from constant spitting of blood; the last week of pleasant weather has been of service to her, and the prospect of seeing you all at home gives her the most unfeigned pleasure.
"I have even more painful intelligence to give you.

Our young neighbor, Mrs.Kent, has done with all her trials, and I trust they sanctified her, in preparation for the early and unexpected death which has been her lot.

You are not yet aware of the extent of her trials.