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MRS. BARRE lived on, nobly, where the noblest
part of her life had been, and saw Mary,
(grown to womanhood,) like herself, the happy
wife of a young priest. She lived on nobly.

Once, on a pleasant summer's day, after no wasting, or
weakening, or dependence, when her time came, her life
went out as a star is lost in the day.

She laid herself down at evening; bid her maids stay
with her a little while; by-and-by sent quietly for the
Minister; joined with her voice in the Church-prayers;
lay still, with soft breathing, (and the other Christians,—
priestly and lay, simple and gentle,—breathed softly by
her bedside, while the sound of waves breaking upon the
far-off sand came in, and moonlight and shade lay calmly
side by side out of doors, and dews fell calmly;) once
opened her eyes upward, saying, through the stillness,
“Yes!” as if in answer; turned, partly, with a bright
smile, to her friends; then shut the lids down softly for the
last time, and so, with a fair veil of smile hung over the
dead features, left her body there to be put away, until it
shall be raised, in new beauty, to walk upon The New
Earth.

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