...bedside like a curious child, to see whose face it was, which lay once more upon . the usual pillow ; and I saw my mother, with tears of joy upon her cheeks...deeper sadness still upon my fancies. My mother was ill — my mother was old — she might be gone before I could reach her — I might never see her...

...mother's funeral but once in a lifetime." The words came surging back into Kirsteen's mind again : " True loves I may get mony a ane, But Minnie ne'er anither." Her heart felt as if it must burst, and yet it was something like a laugh that broke from her, as she...

...bedside like a curious child, to see whose face it was, which lay once more upou the usual pillow ; and I saw my mother, with tears of joy upon her cheeks...deeper sadness still upon my fancies. My mother was ill — my mother was old — she might be gone before I could reach her — I might never see her...