I meant, did you not fear His power, who could not only kill your body, but destroy your soul in hell ?' "'I didn't think of any thing, for a long time.

My mistress got worse after that, and I nursed her until she died; poor Miss Ellen was a baby, and I had her too.

When master died I thought it was no use for me to wish him ill, for the hand of the Lord was heavy on him, for true.

'Lucy,' he said, 'you are a kind nurse to me, though I sold your children, but I've had no rest since.' I couldn't make him feel worse, ma'am, for he was going to his account with all his sins upon him.' "'This is the first time Lucy,' I said, 'that I have ever known children to be sold away from their mother, and I look upon the crime with as great a horror as you do.' "'Its the only time I ever knowed it, ma'am, and everybody pitied me, and many a kind thing was said to me, and many a hard word was said of him; true enough, but better be forgotten, as he is in his grave.' "Some persons now entered, and Lucy became absorbed in her present grief; her old frame shook as with a tempest, when the fair face was hid from her sight.

There were few mourners; Cousin Weston and I followed her to the grave.