Think not that coming years can render me oblivious to my present affliction.

They may make dull the agony I now feel, and perchance I will then wear as bright a smile as I did in years ago, but the remembrance of my wife and child will never be blunted; no, nor shall a shade cross over my heart, and dim the affection I had for them, while living, and for their memory now that they are in the grave." Alfred was right.

The words of Harry were a theory which sounds well enough for advice, but which can never be placed into practice.

The Past! who can forget it?
The Present, with its load of cares; with its hours of happiness and prosperity; with its doubts and anxieties, is not sufficiently powerful to extinguish remembrance of the Past.

The Future, to which we all look for the accomplishment of our designs--the achievement of our ambitious purposes--cannot remove the Past.