To the surprise of all who attended her, she lived through the shock, recovering with the complete loss of one faculty, which, in her situation, poor thing, was a mercy and a gain to her--the faculty of memory.

From that time to this she has never had the slightest gleam of recollection of anything that happened before her illness.

In her happy oblivion, the veriest trifles are as new and as interesting to her as if she was beginning her existence again.

Under the tender care of the friends who now protect her, she lives contentedly the life of a child.

When her last hour comes, may she die with nothing on her memory but the recollection of their kindness! THE EIGHTH DAY.
THE wind that I saw in the sky yesterday has come.