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all others. Nor was it long before she ceased to have 

 any home besides. Her aunt, Mrs James Wilson, to 

 whom she was tenderly attached, was an invalid, and 

 in ministering to her during a lengthened illness 

 Henrietta found the first outlet for that oenerous 

 self-devotion which distinguished her through life. 

 Notwithstanding haljits eminently active, and with a 

 fondness for flowers and rural walks little short of a 

 passion, many were the summer days when nothing 

 coidd tempt her from the bed-side of the suff'erer, and 

 many were the long and silent nights which she spent 

 anxiously watching in that dim chamber. Some would 

 have pitied as well as admired such sacrifice in one so 

 young ; but of self there was so little in Henrietta 

 Wilson, that victory over it always seemed quite easy. 

 And the labour of love had its own rew^ard. With her 

 large acquirements and her earnest piety, there were 

 always good lessons to be learned in Mrs Wilson's 

 society. She delighted in books, and many was the 

 volume with which her youthful companion first be- 

 came acquainted from reading it aloud to her aunt ; 

 and, best of all, she then acquired those habits of 

 tender sympathy and considerate kindness, which after- 

 wards so endeared her to her friends. It is thus that 

 " many are made white and purified." From that sick- 



