Now, if never before, the unhappy man saw what a wealth of love he had cast aside, a love that, even in death caused by his base desertion, could forgive him his perfidy and carry his picture in a fond embrace down to the grave.

As his guardian angel, she would bear it with her up to God's throne, and there plead his cause.

Overcome at last by a flood of anguish and remorse, the guilty man cried aloud in his despair and fell prostrate beside the coffin, striking his head on its corner as he sank unconscious to the floor.
Manasseh found him there and bore him back to his room.

After putting him to bed and ministering to his wants, he went out with Aaron to prepare Anna's grave.
"We must make it wide enough for two," said he; "it was her wish." When, after several hours of hard work, the two brothers returned home, Manasseh went at once to his guest's room.

Before his marriage this chamber had been occupied by him, and he still used it occasionally for writing.