Her conclusion was sudden, and she appeared to break off just before reaching an agony-point.

"Thou who beneath the frown of fate hast stood, And in thy dreadful agony sweat blood."Young, p. 238. OBS.

In her great grief she retired to the solitude of her own chamber, and refused to see any face save that of Mrs. Austin, who from this period became her sole attendant, even after time had somewhat ameliorated the first agony incident to her condition.

Again the cold sweat was dropping from my face; again I had felt the mysterious mental agony attendant upon a too violent transition of personality.

And then at night, when the will is dormant, when the nervous system is no longer ruled by the power of waking intelligence, the old familiar agony returns, the hated images flash back upon the brain, and in proportion to the fineness of the temperament is the intensity of the dreamer's pain.'

Men make no mention of her heroism and divine patience; they take no thought of the mental or physical agonies women endure in the perils of maternity, ofttimes without nurse or physician in the supreme hour of their need, going, as every mother does, to the very gates of death in giving life to an immortal being!"

Yes, compassion is due to thee, India's young daughter; The sound of thy sorrow, thy plaint of despair Have reached English ears o'er the wide westward water, And sympathy stirred, seldom slumbering there. Child-Wife, or Child-Widow, in agony kneeling And clasping the skirts of the armed Island Queen, Her heart is not cold to thine urgent appealing; Considerate care in her glances is seen.