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death she died, I feel great consolation in my bereavement, and can say, ‘Father, thy will be done.’
Knowing the delicate state of Mary's health, I came all the way from Stockholm with fear and trembling, and with the exception of one day's ride from Kiel to Hamburg we came the whole distance by water.
Unfortunately our passage from Hamburg to Amsterdam in the Steamboat was rather rough, and Mary was quite unwell.
On the night of our arrival the circumstance occurred to which I alluded in my last, [the premature birth of a child] and which has had this fatal termination. . . . In Amsterdam we remained three weeks; and Mary seemed to be quite restored and was anxious to be gone.
To avoid a possibility of fatigue we took three days to come to this place—a distance of only forty miles; and on our arrival here Mary was in excellent spirits and to all appearances very well.
But alas!
the same night she had a relapse which caused extreme debility, with a low fever, and nervous headache.
This was on the 23d October.
In a day or two she was better, and on the 27th worse again.
After this she seemed to recover slowly, and sat up for a the first time on the 11th, though only for a short while.
This continued for a day or two longer, till she felt well enough to sit up for nearly an hour.
And
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