I know nothing of it by experience, nor do I wish to, if it has power to diminish the filial and sisterly tenderness which constitutes my chief joy." "My dear Edith, it is not so.

Every pure and generous affection expands the heart, and gives it new capacities for loving.

Have you not heard of heaven,--'the more angels the more room ?' So it is with the human heart.
It is elastic, and enlarges with every lawful claimant to be admitted into its sanctuary.

It is true there is a love which admits of no rivalry;" here his eye turned involuntarily to me, "which enshrines but one object, which dwells in the inner temple, the angel of angels.

But other affections do not become weaker in consequence of its strength.