Mary T.finds herself free, and on that path to adventure and exertion to which she has so long been seeking admission.

Sickness, hardship, danger are her fellow travellers--her inseparable companions.
She may have been out of the reach of these S.W.

N.W.gales, before they began to blow, or they may have spent their fury on land, and not ruffled the sea much.

If it has been otherwise, she has been sorely tossed, while we have been sleeping in our beds, or lying awake thinking about her.

Yet these real, material dangers, when once past, leave in the mind the satisfaction of having struggled with difficulty, and overcome it.