"Yes, yes, I forgive you.

Poor woman! you too have suffered," and he fell back dead.
I have little doubt that he was addressing his lost wife, some vision of whom had flashed across his dying sense.

Stella, of course, was overwhelmed with grief at her loss.

Till I came her father had been her sole companion, and therefore, as may be imagined, the tie between them was much closer than is usual even in the case of father and daughter.
So deeply did she mourn that I began to fear for the effect upon her health.

Nor were we the only ones to grieve; all the natives on the settlement called Mr.Carson "father," and as a father they lamented him.