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for the sick and dying; and as the nurse spoke of sending for Dr. Bosworth, the Episcopal clergyman, Mary said she should like to see him, and I accordingly sent.
He came about one o'clock, but at this time Mary became apparently insensible to what was around her; and at half-past 1 she ceased to breathe.
Thus all the hopes I had so fondly cherished of returning home with my dear Mary in happiness and renovated health have in the providence of God ended in disappointment and sorrow unspeakable.
All that I have left to me in my affliction is the memory of her goodness, her gentleness, her affection for me—unchangeable in life and in death—and the hope of meeting her again hereafter, where there shall be no more sickness, nor sorrow, nor suffering, nor death.
I feel, too, that she must be infinitely, oh, infinitely happier now than when with us on earth, and I say to myself,—
Peace! peace! she is not dead, she does not sleep!With my most affectionate remembrance to Eliza and Margaret, and my warmest sympathies with you all, very truly yours,
She has awakened from the dream of life.
On the 2d of December the young husband left Rotterdam for Heidelberg. There he spent
