As, in such circumstances, it would have been cruel for Madame Louison to leave the bedside of her aged parent, it was arranged that she should remain till the period of his decease, and then join her husband, who, in the meanwhile, was compelled to return to Vienna.

," said Mrs. Bence, approaching the bedside, "air ye afeared to go over as far as my house right now?"

When Mrs. Hamilton reached the bedside of her child, she found him delirious, and was shocked to see he did not know her.

From this moment she resolved, if her life were the forfeit, not to quit for an instant the bedside of Venetia until she was declared out of danger; and feeling conscious that if she once indulged her own feelings, she might herself soon be in a situation scarcely less hazardous than her daughter's, she controlled herself with a mighty effort.

Very calmly, Mrs. Pendomer opened a window, letting in a flood of fresh air and sunshine; very calmly, she drew a chaira substantial arm-chairto the bedside, and, very calmly, she began: "My dear, Rudolph has told me of this ridiculous affair, andoh, you equally ridiculous girl!"

No complaint, now, of being in a hurry, or of his anxiety to regain his sick sister's bedside.

Here is buried the dear old deacon and his wife, by whose bedside we stood when his forehead was wet with the damp dews of death, and his eye lighted up by faith, seemed to scan the glories of the upper world, and he felt it was "far better to depart and be with Christ.

The near relatives of the dying Indian surround the humble bedside, and by loud lamentations and much weeping manifest a grief which is truly commensurate with the intensity of Indian devotion and attachment.