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limbs which come out. Yet were it perhaps well to 

 realise more closely than many people are inclined to 

 do the advantages of that department of nature. All 

 the glory and loveliness of life the intoxicating sense 

 of buoyant strength, the breathing of keen mountain 

 air, the shock of the nerve-giving ocean waves, the 

 glow of imagination, the deep music of the wheels of 

 thought, the friendly intercourse of truthful manly 

 souls, the mother-eyes that first bend over us with 

 divine love and tears, the clinging hands of infants, 

 that give us strength from their very feebleness, and 

 the one dear face before which our whole being thrills 

 all these are so connected with, and so necessarily 

 dependent on, their dark contrasts, that these latter 

 will be gladly endured, and even welcomed, by the 

 pious spirit. It is not those who have the most, on 

 the most easy terms, of the sunny side of life, that 

 can appreciate and enjoy it best. The solitary sun- 

 beam which fell at the feet of the prisoner of Chillon 

 brought more to him of that distant world than we 

 find in the glorious sunny days of summer. ~\Ye are 

 in the hands, not of an enemy, but of a Friend : 

 suffering is good ; the phantom Pain will sink abashed 

 before the steady gaze of a manly spirit and a pure 

 mind ; and death, even in its worst forms, is but a 

 fiery chariot prepared to bear the victor to higher 

 realms. 



As it turned out, no assailants made their appear- 

 ance, and my patient was allowed to depart from his 



