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"Sound mournfully upon the winds and low; / For simple Isabel is soon to be / Among the dead. "
She was married early in September. When she had been told that it was to be, she had simply acquiesced, quite quietly, quite gravely. "To make _him_ happy" -- she had not forgotten the wistful words -- almost his last -- and the withholding of the sign was proof that the sacred injunction was not rescinded. If his dear ghost still held her to that sacrifice, there must be reasons for it hidden among the inscrutable silences. Perhaps that way alone lay the end she so wearied for. If this poor residue from all which exalted life above its material perishableness was enough for Joseph's content, she valued it too little to grudge it him. Let him be happy with it, if he would and could.