A fitter occasion could never have presented itself, than what this moment offers, when all the curtains of the family are drawn--the candles put out--and no creature's eyes are open but a single one, for the other has been shut these twenty years, of my mother's nurse.

A fitter occasion could never have presented itself than this moment, when all the curtains are drawn - the candles put out - and no creature's eyes are open but a single one, of my mother's nurse.
