I should be proud to hear them, and if they were true, they would comfort me more than anything else.

I am glad you see the lovely side of sorrow, and are learning the lesson such losses teach us," answered their mother, who believed in teaching young people to face trouble bravely, and find the silver lining in the clouds that come to all of us.
"I never thought much about it before, but now dying doesn't seem dreadful at all--only solemn and beautiful.

Somehow everybody seems to love everybody else more for it, and try to be kind and good and pious.
I can't say what I mean, but you know, mother;" and Frank went pacing on again with the bright look his eyes always wore when he listened to music or read of some noble action.
"That's what Merry said when she and Molly came in on their way home.
But Molly felt dreadfully, and so did Mabel.

She brought me these flowers to press, for we are all going to keep some to remember dear Ed by," said Jill, carefully smoothing out the little bells as she laid the lilies in her hymn-book, for she too had had a thoughtful hour while she lay alone, imagining all that went on in the church, and shedding a few tender tears over the friend who was always so kind to her.
"I don't want anything to remember him by.

I was so fond of him, I couldn't forget if I tried.