The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

ENFOLDED IN THE EMBRACE OF DEATH.

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His wife complained to her master of his moroseness and
indifference, and begged permission to take a new husband.
This she did without waiting for Mr. Henderson's consent,
deserting Matt, and going to live with another servant.
His children ceased to call him "father," and hailed him as
"Ole Matt." He always shook his head at my offers of
help, and, at last, avoided me as he did everyone else. Just
-Ma
DEATH OF MATT.
Death had healed all his wounds, and poor Matt was enfolded in her comforting embrace.
before my return to the North, he was found dead one
morning on the floor of the cooper's shop, where it was
evident that he had lain for some time. Death had finally
healed all his wounds, and poor Matt was enfolded in her
comforting embrace.
The month of June came on apace, arrayed in a glory
that I had never seen it wear at the North, and the time
drew near for our visit to the Blackstock plantation. The
prospective dinner party concerned the elders of the family,
but the ball of the evening occupied all the waking hours of