She had been shaken by the events of the last two days; her whole life just now was a strain upon her fortitude; and, somehow, these careless words of her father's, touching on the remembrance of the sunny times of old, made her start up, and, dropping her sewing on the ground, she went hastily out of the room into her own little chamber. 
She had been shaken by the events of the last two days; and, somehow, these careless words of her father's, about the sunny times of old, made her start up.
Dropping her sewing, she went hastily out of the room into her own little chamber. 