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The other event was in the unexpected death of her sister Seraph - possessed of a kind and gentle disposition, and winning manner, and between whose hearts vibrated the tenderest cord of affection! A few months before we had left her in quite fair health. How soon she was called from children, husband and friends! Her daughter - in - law, Lucina, was with us, and felt keenly the unexpected stroke. These events, born down as Sarah was, with sickness, were well calculated to make a deep impression upon her mind, -- So many friends bereaved, -- ties broken! Her meditation, in view of these admonitions of our mortality, were not lost upon her mind. She contemplated death philosophically. -- An event, certain to us all, -- whether now, or in future, -- only "a question of time," as she had declared to me. True, she did not feel