An invalid wife in Leavenworth heard her husband make proposals of
marriage to the nurse. The dying woman arose in bed, fixed her large
black eyes for a moment upon the face of her heartless spouse with a
reproachful intensity that must haunt him through life, and then fell
back a corpse. The remorse of that widower, as he led the blushing
nurse to the altar the next week, can be more easily imagined than
described. Such reparation as was in his power he made. He buried the
first wife decently and very deep down, laying a handsome and
exceedingly heavy stone upon the sepulchre. He chiselled upon the stone
the following simple and touching line: “She can’t get back.”