But if not, you must still take comfort.

You must be willing, for my sake, to be comforted.

And remember:--don't be angry with me, darling--if in years to come, another true love, and another home should be offered you, don't refuse them--Nelly! You were born to be loved.

And if my spirit lives, and understands; what could it feel but joy that your sorrow was healed--my best beloved! 'This will be given to you only if I die.

With the deepest gratitude and the tenderest love that a man can feel, I bid you good-bye--my precious wife--good-bye!' He put it up with a steady hand, and addressed it first to Nelly, enclosing it in a larger envelope addressed to his oldest friend, a school-fellow, who had been his best man at their marriage.