should have thought it the kindest dispensation that could be awarded to one so wrecked.”
“You mistake the matter completely,” rejoined Westervelt.
“What, then, is your own view of it?” I asked.
“Her mind was active, and various in its powers,” said he. “Her heart had a manifold adaptation; her constitution an infinite buoyancy, which (had she possessed only a little patience to await the reflux of her troubles) would have borne her upward triumphantly for twenty years to come. Her beauty would not have waned — or scarcely so, and surely not beyond the reach of art to restore it — in all that time.
She had life’s summer all before her, and a