Scenes of Clerical Life

likely have loved her—if he had been able to love any one. But nature had not endowed him with that capability. She had given

Caterina was thinking of the near future—of the wedding that was so soon to come—of all she would have to live through in the next months. 'I wish I could be very ill, and die before then,' she thought. 'When people get very ill, they don't mind about things. Poor Patty Richards looked so happy when she was in a decline. She didn't seem to care any