THE TWO FATHERS.
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There was the sound of sti1ed sobbing through ont the whole house, the fires were extinct on all the hearths and by the glmmer Of neglected lights small groups of weeping friends were setting in re- mote rooms, silent, or now and then utterlng few words from which all the tones of hope had faded away, and that struck their hearts, at intervals, like the very toll of the passing bell. In one apart ment there was perfect hush, and no more motion than on a froZensea. Therein lay on her death-bed but still breathing, sweet child as ever folded hands before God lover her countenance, white as the shrouded sheet, her parents had long been hanging and dropping their last kisses on the clos ed unconscious eyes--he whose skill had been m vain bestowed on the sufferer night and day, stood at the foot of the couch with solemn face over spread with that profound pity which meiteth not in tears-and the holy man who had continued to to read to her the words of him who died to save sinners even after her speech was gone and ner re- signafion was seen only in few last vanishine smiles now bowed down his silver hairs m tne gloom, and at the very moment of her souls de

 parture to heaven remained in the posture cf reVe I rential prayer.

 The change from life to death. gradual as It ma.

 have been in its progress, srnifes the loving nsaI I that beholds it with pang as suDau ca as tnel 1 had been no previous despair Inefe nao Desn

 faint irregular breath for inc psrents 10 ts.en | there had been motion of the bosom for them

 oaze on-a ouvering of the eve lids that, miserabi

 thonoh if xyas to see, showed that their child ws vet among the living. But now breath or motio | there was none--heF name was inc name of sna | doy-for her life had ceased to beshe had let th world in which they dwelt and would continue

 dweil--tha separatisu was infinite. the ssbeyau tha mower of fheT aitten hearts 10 conealyeS an relt-scr itself that had hitheFto borne AhNn ul