Parting, SO 5 



does not reflect. In that dreadful moment I could not even 

 feel for poor Minna, who had to part from her boy, and whose 

 heart was as heavy as mine, for she also had the feeling that 

 she should never see him again. 



When clasping my brave Felix for the last time in my arms, 

 it was like a leave-taking on a death-bed ; and when he was 

 gone, and even the sound of the horses had died away ; it 

 >eemed to both of us, Minna and myself, that we had heard 

 ihe rattling of the funeral car. 



Silently we fell into each other's arms in a close embrace, 

 niingling our tears ; and our fervent prayers for husband and 

 .on went up together to the throne of the Almighty. 



