Good-bye--and God bless and prosper you." I was unaffectedly distressed.

There was something terrible in this sudden break-up of poor Engelman's harmless life--something cruel and shocking in the passion of love fixing its relentless hold on an innocent old man, fast nearing the end of his days.

There are hundreds of examples of this deplorable anomaly in real life; and yet, when we meet with it in our own experience, we are always taken by surprise, and always ready to express doubt or derision when we hear of it in the experience of others.
Madame Fontaine behaved admirably.

She sat down on the window-seat at the end of the landing, and wrung her hands with a gesture of despair.
"Oh!" she said, "if he had asked me for anything else! If I could have made any other sacrifice to him! God knows I never dreamed of it; I never gave him the smallest encouragement.

We might have all been so happy together here--and I, who would have gone to the world's end to serve Mr.
Keller and Mr.Engelman, I am the unhappy creature who has broken up the household!" Mr.Keller was deeply affected.