When the grass came, she ordered handfuls to be brought her and put in saucers of water.

With the coming of the blossoms she began to mend.

As for me, I was as much an animal as ever--robust in health--inattentive, and seeking excitement and exhilaration.

I went everywhere, to Bible class, to Sunday school, and to every funeral which took place within our precincts.

But I never looked upon the dead; perhaps that sight would have marred the slumbrous security which possessed me--the instinctive faith in the durability of my own powers of life.
But a change was approaching.