She is just as sweet and unselfish as I _was_ selfish.

I don't think I am quite so bad now; and I think, if I lived, I should try to be a great deal better." "O Lillie! I cannot bear to part with you! I never have ceased to love you; and I never have loved any other woman." "I know that, John.

Oh! how much truer and better you are than I have been! But I like to think that you love me,--I like to think that you will be sorry when I am gone, bad as I am, or _was_; for I insist on it that I am a little better than I was.

You remember that story of Undine you read me one day?
It seems as if most of my life I have been like Undine before her soul came into her.

But this last year I have felt the coming in of a soul.