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The little Alice, Maria Hatherton's own child, had lingered and

struggled long, but all the care and kindness of the good Sisters at

St Norbert's had been unavailing, she had sunk at last, and the mother

re all that was

required of her, but never speaking nor giving the ladies any opening to

try to ence than her mother meant her to obtain,

and brooded over it in her weakness and her silence

Recovery is often reatly

Indeed, she was not sure that she ought to have recovered at all, and

perhaps the shock to her nerves and spirits wasdisorder, which had, however, so much

weakened her that she succumbed entirely to the blow "Accountable for

all," the words still rang in her ears, and the all for which she was

accountable continually nified itself She had tied a dreadful knot,

which Fanny, rievous

suffering and danger to her boys, and too late to prevent that death

which continually haunted Rachel; those looks of convulsive agony ca intervals Nothing put them

aside, occupation in her weakness only bewildered and distracted her,