"There is no hope," he cried.

"I was the happiest man on earth; and I am the most miserable.

She had no fault; none; you knew her well; but you could not know, nobody but myself could know, her goodness." Tenison undertook to tell her that she was dying.

He was afraid that such a communication, abruptly made, might agitate her violently, and began with much management.

But she soon caught his meaning, and, with that gentle womanly courage which so often puts our bravery to shame, submitted herself to the will of God.