"I am not going to die, am I ?" she continued, casting upon Alice a look which would have wrung out the truth, even if Alice had been disposed to withhold it, which she was not.
"You are very sick," she answered, "and though we hope for the best, the doctor does not encourage us much.

Are you willing to die, 'Lina ?" Neither Hugh nor Alice ever forgot the tone of 'Lina's voice as she replied: "Willing?
No!" or the expression of her face, as she turned it to the wall, and motioned them to leave her.
For two days after that she neither spoke nor gave other token of interest in anything passing around her, but at the expiration of that time, as Alice sat by her, she suddenly exclaimed: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
I wish He had said that some other way, for if that means we cannot be forgiven until we forgive everybody, there's no hope for me, for I cannot, I will not forgive Densie Densmore for being my mother, neither will I forgive Adah Hastings for having crossed my path.

If she had never seen the doctor I should have been his wife, and never have known who or what I was.

I hate them both, Densie and Adah, so you need not pray for me.

I heard you last night, and even Hugh has taken it up, but it's no use.