April, 1844.—Time applied to grief is a worldly common place—time has its due influence over visible grief, that which is expressed by visible emotions—it softens sighs and dries tears! but le fond remains the same! Time gives you back to the exercise of your faculties and your habits; but the loss of that which is, or was, part of yourself, remains for ever. This melancholy Sunday morning, April! The first word written in this once gay record of pleasant sensations!
