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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: suffering, which she alone could remove. The very vastness of
this tragedy that hung about the house made it an inexpressible
relief to her to turn and concentrate her thoughts for a moment
on this slight distress, so easily ended.
Strange, by what slender threads our lives are knitted to each
other! Here was one who had taken Hope's whole existence in her
hands, crushed it, and thrown it away. Hope had soberly said
to herself, just before, that death would be better than life
for her young sister. Yet now it moved her beyond endurance to
see that fair form troubled, even while unconscious, by a
feather's weight of pain; and all the lifelong habit of
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