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I could tell fearful stories of some who died as young as Jack, and whose death-beds can never be forgotten by those who saw them.
It is not something for Sundays, and for prayer-meetings, and for sick-rooms, death-beds, and funerals: it is just as much for the school-room, the play-ground, the store, the kitchen, the street. Wherever you may chance to be, if you listen you will hear a voice behind you, whispering, "This is the way; walk ye in it."
In these remarks I am alluding neither to acute cases which terminate rapidly nor to "nervous" cases. By the first much interest in their own danger is very rarely felt. In writings of fiction, whether novels or biographies, these death-beds are generally depicted as almost seraphic in lucidity of intelligence.
Meetings at fair and market, blushing betrothments, merry weddings, the joy of young maternity, the lights and shades of domestic life, its bereavements and partings, its chances and changes, its holy death-beds, and funerals solemnly beautiful in quiet kirkyards, these furnish the hints of the immortal melodies of Burns, the sweet ballads of the Ettrick Shepherd and Allan Cunningham, and the rustic drama of Ramsay.
"Love" was a word rarely mentioned in his circle except on death-beds, "I've been a married man for thirty years," he said hurriedly. "That won't do. It should have been a hopeless affair-the last sight of the lady on a spur of coast with water on three sides that kind of thing, you know, or it might have happened to an ancestor.... But you don't look the kind of breed for hopeless attachments.
But the question is not so much how the Roman Empire or any other great thing came to an end everything must come to an end some time, it is only scientists who wonder that a state should die the interesting question is how did the Romans become so great, under what circumstances were they born and bred? We should watch childhood and schooldays rather than old age and death-beds.
Men on their death-beds do not lie, and I am as firmly convinced that Jasper Vermont forced that man to sell the race, as though I had the confession on paper. Still, I will say no more; you are young, and 'Youth knows All. Find out for yourself the man's character, I shall not warn you again.
I re-lived my whole conscious life from my babyhood up to this very day. You can imagine what a medley it was of nurses, military expeditions, cramming for examinations, confirmations, birthdays, marriages, sick-beds and death-beds. At the end I went through the whole sinking of the Roland again.
Some people might have considered it best to reply with a lie the frightened, cowardly lie that is so often told at death-beds to the soul passing direct to its God. But this girl could not and dared not. Leaning over her mistress, she whispered as softly as she could, choking down the tears that might have disturbed the peace which, mercifully, seemed to have come with dying,
The Limerick Examiner, in giving an account of the state of the poor in that city, publishes a day's experience of one of the Catholic priests in the Parish of St. John. In one day he was called to officiate at the death-beds of seven persons who were dying of starvation, the families of which they were members comprising, in all, twenty-three souls.
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