It seemed a sad way to die, surrounded by strangers, who did not even know her name; but Mercy was unconscious.

It made no difference to her.

Her heavy breathing told only too well the nature of the trouble.
"This cannot be the first attack she has had," said the doctor; and it was found afterward that Mercy had told Lizzy Hunter of her having twice had threatenings of a paralytic seizure.

"If only I die at once," she had said to Lizzy, "I would rather go that way than in most others.

I dread the dying part of death.