"And do you recollect the remark you made on his leaving us?"
"No."
"You said, 'I wonder what is the matter. Mr. Cole looks so much annoyed to-day.'"
"I now recollect it, and I thought of it several times during the week, but I don't cherish such gloomy things as you do."
"Then I can tell you what affected him. I have just heard it. It will astonish you. No one expected such a thing; it is so strange and unlikely."
"What is it?"
"You know Miss Amelia Stubbs has been very ill many weeks and is likely to die."
"Yes, I heard it from Dr. Bailey."
"Her papa, when she was given over by Dr. Bailey and another physician, sent for Mr. Cole, and he talked to her, and gave her the sacrament and absolution, and then assured her that all was done that was necessary to be done to fit her for heaven; and he told her that now she might be resigned to her fate without any fear, as her peace with God was made on the sanctity of the sacrament."