I have occasionally again wished I could have seen my way
partially to explain myself to M., and have thought it hard to die
misrepresented, but I am glad I have not spoken. I should have
disturbed her peace, and I care nothing about justification or
misrepresentation now. With eternity so near, what does it matter?
INSCRIPTION ON THE ENVELOPE.
"TO MY NIECE JUDITH,--You have been so kind to your aunt, the only human
being, at last, who was left to love her, that she could not refrain
from telling you the one passage in her history which is of any
importance or interest."
JAMES FORBES
"It is all a lie, and it is hard to believe that people who preach it do
not know it to be a lie."
So said James Forbes to Elizabeth Castleton, the young woman to whom he
was engaged. She was the daughter of a clergyman, and James, who had
been brought up at Rugby and Oxford, was now in his last year at a
London hospital, and was going to be a doctor.
"I am sure my father does not know it to be a lie, and I do not myself
know it to be a lie.
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