Nothing could free her from the gloomy thoughts that occupied her fancy. She dreaded death, and no human power could console her. A few days after her rosy lips grew livid and her black eyes shone with unwonted brilliancy. At last, one morning, she called her father, and besought him, when she was dead, to cut off her head. She embraced her mother, who wept scalding tears. Then she took an amulet from her neck and said to me : “Keep it; think that it will be more useful to thee than me!” These sad ceremonies ended, she received the holy sacrament with devotion. Two or three hours afterwards she breathed more heavily and her eyes were fixed. Suddenly she seized the arm of her father and made a show of embracing him. In that instant she passed to another world.”
From— Evening Star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 06 May 1858. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
