13/22 It was an unfortunate affair, taking one thing with another. When her elopement was made known to the general, it killed him." "Killed him!" interrupted Mr.Carlyle. He had disease of the heart, and the excitement brought on the crisis. My poor wife never was happy from that hour; she blamed herself for her father's death, and I believe it led to her own. She was ill for years; the doctors called it consumption; but it was more like a wasting insensibly away, and consumption never had been in her family. |