grief

I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair. But I—I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew.” As he said thi...

has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.

My family itself is so small that it will not take me long to describe it. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a moment from his face. Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had...

They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month.

It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, and we have promised him.” I went to the dining-room and waked him. He was dazed for a moment, but when he saw...