Excerpt from On the Susquehanna: A Novel
"And this is death!"
There were two persons in the room, a woman and a man. The woman stood by the side of a bed; the man lay upon it. She was apparently about twenty-five years of age; he looked as though he might be forty-five. Though evidently weary, both in mind and in body, she exhibited no signs of feeble physical or mental health; on the contrary, she was tall and robust, and though her cheeks were pale, and her movements somewhat languid, it was easy to see that these were temporary conditions, that would disappear as soon as she could get out to inhale the fresh air of the mountains that rose, like black walls, almost within a stones throw of the house.
The expression on her face was not only one of fatigue, but it was one of poignant sorrow; and well it might be, for the man that lay on what was evidently his death-bed was her father; her friend and companion of many years, the only being in all the world that she loved, and almost the only one that she knew.
It was easy to see that he was ill unto death.
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