text:  Was it only the sight of death of the last parting of the soul that thus affected her? Was it affliction that her own error should have contributed to hasten that unhappy woman's end? Or was not there rather a powerful instinct within her that in that awful moment bound her by a sympathetic tie to her unknown mother and conveyed a portion of that last agony of the departing woman to her own heart? Magdalena although she could not speak was evidently aware of the presence of the gentle girl