That she clung to it with unfailing tenacity to the last I cannot doubt, however, from memorials written in her own handa very characteristic oneand from the testimony of Mrs. Austin, her faithful friend and attendantthe nurse, let me mention here, of my father's little step-daughter during her mother's lifetime, and her brief orphanage, as well as of his succeeding children.

One student in writing of her future plans mentions that, as an "avocation" in the chinks of her hospital work, she plans to raise private funds and found a little orphanage all her own!

Perhaps utter orphanage is rarely or never such: but to lose a father betimes may, under appropriate circumstances, profit a strong mind greatly.