`` That is true , '' asserted Susan . `` Her sister-in-law told me that when the doctor told her at last that he could do nothing for her and she would never rise from that bed again , Myra said quite cheerfully , ` Well , if that is so , I 'm thankful the preserving is all done , and I will not have to face the fall house-cleaning . I always liked house-cleaning in spring , ' she says , ` but I always hated it in the fall . I will get clear of it this year , thank goodness . ' There are people who would call that levity , Mrs. Marshall Elliott , and I think her sister-in-law was a little ashamed of it . She said perhaps her sickness had made Myra a little light-headed . But I said , ` No , Mrs. Murray , do not worry over it . It was just Myra 's way of looking at the bright side . ' '' `` Her sister Luella was just the opposite , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` There was no bright side for Luella -- there was just black and shades of gray . For years she used always to be declaring she was going to die in a week or so . ' I wo n't be here to burden you long , ' she would tell her family with a groan . And if any of them ventured to talk about their little future plans she 'd groan also and say , ` Ah , I wo n't be here then . ' When I went to see her I always agreed with her and it made her so mad that she was always quite a lot better for several days afterwards . She has better health now but no more cheerfulness . Myra was so different . She was always doing or saying something to make some one feel good . Perhaps the men they married had something to do with it . Luella 's man was a Tartar , believe ME , while Jim Murray was decent , as men go . He looked heart-broken to-day .
It is n't often I feel sorry for a man XXXXX his wife 's funeral , but I did feel for Jim Murray . ''
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