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trembling hand and wearied brain to attempt some faint shadowing of these sad weeks -- no, they were not all sad to me, for the first four were as full as need be of happiness, but the remainder have been overflowed with the bitterst anguish that my young heart has ever known; four of them were bathed in the sweet sunlight of youth and hope -- over them death has cast his dark shadow of sorrow and tears--a shadow that must for [illegible] remain.

"Death, once new at our hearth, haveth a shadow that abides forever."

We are a mourning household -- the hitherto unbroken chain of family love has been rudely snapped -- the Destroyer came in an unexpected hour and snatched away the fairest link -- the brightness of our home seems gone forever for one is absent and we watch in vain for the beaming smile, the laughing eye, and the light free step that will come no more. Seven weeks ago to-night I sat where I now sit in Father's study writing in my journal, and there sat one beside me writing to a young firend dear to us both my own dear brother! there we sat hour after hour sometimes talking, sometimes writing, and midnight came and found us still there. Then I closed my book, and at his request read over the long letter he had just finished, he waiting for my approval ere it received his own, when that was given he

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