"Amen!"
I felt that this response was no idle ejaculation.
"How was she affected?" I asked. "Has she been sick for any time? Or
did life go out suddenly?"
"It went out suddenly," replied the lady--"as suddenly as a lamp in
the wind."
"Was she excited from any cause?"
"She has been in an excited state ever since our arrival, although
every thing that lay in our power has been done to quiet her mind
and give it confidence and repose."
She spoke calmly, as one, who held a controlling position there, and
of right. I looked into her serene face, almost classic in its
outlines, with an expression of blended inquiry and surprise, that
it was evident did not escape her observation, although she offered
no explanation in regard to herself.
I turned again to the corpse, and examined it with some care. There
was nothing in its appearance that gave me any clue to the cause
which had produced this sudden extinguishment of life.
"In what way was she excited?" I asked, looking at the stranger as I
stepped back from the couch on which the dead body was lying.
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