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which for some months back had been her custom and then repairing with her solitary meal to the grove, she joined the family at their breakfast table, and conversed on several subjects more rationally than she had done since the first day of her derangement. As soon as their repast was ended, Jane arose, and affectionately embraced every individual of the family, particularly her mother and Rosetta. They were extremely affected, and prayed with fervour that heaven would be pleased to restore the sense of the fair maniac. They then separated to perform their several domestic duties, and Jane hastened to her usual haunts, taking with her a little basket of provisions, which her tender mother always prepared ready to put in her hand; or poor Jane would have thought not of food till assailed by the calls of hunger. When evening arrived and above an hour was spent in momentry expectation of her return, the family became greatly alarmed, and Lubin and his mother went forth to seek her. They were not many paces from the house, when they perceived a group of villagers approaching towards them bearing a corpse. Alas! it was Jane's! They had found her as they were passing through the grove on their return from their work, lying on the turf inanimate. She was cold, and life had left her fair form for ever. Her right hand reclaimed on her breast; and in her left was clasped a locket, which contained a fragment of Henry’s
