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the victim of mania, the tenderness of his nature sur- 

 vived, that he could still discriminate the supremacy 

 of his affection for the wife of his youth, that the cry 

 of his heart, when reason was eclipsed in madness and 

 the shadow of death fell on the reeling brain, rose clear 

 to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, will 

 be dwelt on with sad interest by those whom Hugh 

 Miller taught to love him with inexpressible love. 



' The body,' writes Dr Hanna, who was one of the 

 first to see it, ' was lifted and laid upon the bed. 

 We saw it there a few hours afterwards. The head lay 

 back, side-ways on the pillow. There was the massive 

 brow, the firm-set, manly features, we had so often 

 looked upon admiringly, just as we had lately seen 

 them, no touch nor trace upon them of disease, 

 nothing but that overspread pallor of death to distin- 

 guish them from what they had been. But the expres- 

 sion of that countenance in death will live in our 

 memory for ever. Death by gun-shot wounds is said 

 to leave no trace of suffering behind ; and never was 

 there a face of the dead freer from all shadow of pain, 

 or grief, or conflict, than that of our dear departed 

 friend. And as we bent over it, and remembered the 

 troubled look it sometimes had in life, and thought 

 what must have been the sublimely-terrific expression 

 that it wore at the moment when the fatal deed was 

 done, we could not help thinking that it lay there to 

 tell us, in that expression of unruffled majestic repose 

 that sat upon every feature, what we so assuredly 

 believe, that the spirit had passed through a terrible 

 tornado, in which reason had been broken down ; but 

 that it had made the great passage in safety, and stood 

 looking back to us, in humble, grateful triumph, from 

 the other side/ 



