140 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



particularly of the beneficence of the ar 

 rangement by which that which at first is 

 the cause of much perplexity, of great dis 

 tress, of sore grief, soon becomes diluted 

 as it were, mixed with other ingredients, 

 and even before any solution is found, any 

 issue is discovered, ceases to be the terrible 

 thing it was in the beginning. Sometimes 

 this is doubtless simply because the tired 

 brain becomes numbed, and the nerves re 

 fuse any longer to bear so acute a current. 

 But this in itself is a part, and a large part 

 of the &quot;tempering&quot; of which I spoke. The 

 wind bloweth where it listeth, and it still 

 beats about the devoted head ; but the 

 blast is silent, or as on the harp of vEolus, 

 the shriek of agony dies away in a plain 

 tive murmur. 



JUNE 10, 1894. 



