Excerpt from Clara Levesque, Vol. 2 of 3 I felt bitterly the loss she had sustained. Nay, more - possibly I might have reasoned with myself that some day it might be my own lot, and I readily imagined how keenly a shock of the kind would be felt by me. Of course it would have been little better than mockery to have presented Alice with the silver mug. However kind my inten tions, the gift would have been a cruel one.

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