The illness had been short,--a severe attack of erysipelas, while Letitia was in her brother’s house at Moultan. Somewhat early in the illness she had said,--‘I am sure I shall die; but one ought not to mind, you know.’ While delirious she was heard to say distinctly,--‘Ta,’--her pet name in the past for her aunt Charlotte; but the message, if there were one, could not be distinguished.