Excerpt from Last Leaf From Sunny Side
Such virtues formed in part the character of her Of whose life it is proposed here to give a simple narrative and they have laid restraint upon the effort. Her strictly private journal, in which she had recorded the details of her religious history for the last twenty years of her life, she commit ted in her last hours to the writer of these pages, in solemn trust that he should give it to the flames without inspection of its contents by any human eye. The most valuable records for the present purpose are thus removed beyond our reach. The spirit of that trust has been extended also to many fragmentary records that remained. It is neces sarily, therefore, but a broken narrative that E here Offered as a memorial of her.
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