not entirely
unhappy. The first agony of despair subsided into a gentle melancholy.
Content in the performance of the quiet duties allotted to her, she
could look back with calmness and even with a melancholy pleasure to the
bright dream of her earlier days. She learned to kiss the rod which had
smitten her, and which blossomed with blessings--and purified by
affliction, her gentle nature became ripened for the sweet reunion with
her Hansford, to which she looked forward with patient hope. The human
heart, like the waters of Bethesda, needs often to be troubled to yield
its true qualities of health and sweetness. Thus was it with Virginia,
and in a peaceful resignation to her Father's will, she lived and passed
away, moving through the world, like the wind of the sweet South,
receiving and bestowing blessings.

THE END.

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