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In a large town there was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room thinking how she had lost first her husband, then both her children, then one by one all her relations, and at length, that very day, her last friend, and now she was quite alone and desolate. She was very sad at heart, and heaviest of all her losses to her was that of her sons; and in her pain she blamed God for it. 在大城市里有一个老太太坐在晚上独自在她的房间里想着她失去了第一个丈夫，然后她的两个孩子，然后一个一个她所有的关系，最后，这一天，她最后的朋友，现在她很孤独和荒凉。她内心很伤心，她所有的损失和沉重的她，她的儿子;她和她的痛苦归咎于上帝吧。 She was still sitting lost in thought, when all at once she heard the bells ringing for early prayer. She was surprised that she had thus in her sorrow watched through the whole night, and lighted her lantern and went to church. 她仍然坐在沉思，这时，她听到钟声早期祈祷。她感到惊讶的是，她在她的悲伤看着整个晚上，点燃灯笼和她一起去教堂。 It was already lighted up when she arrived, but not as it usually was with wax candles, but with a dim light. It was also crowded already with people, and all the seats were filled; and when the old woman got to her usual place it also was not empty, but the whole bench was entirely full. And when she looked at the people, they were none other than her dead relations who were sitting there in their old-fashioned garments, but with pale faces. | 
