A few weeks later, she writes:  “Nina is about and always busy, often working when she seems ready to drop, sustained by her nervous energy and irresistible will.  She has kept up wonderfully under our last painful trial, and has borne it so beautifully that I am afraid she is getting too good to live.”

I have no right to say that Angelina Weld suffered martyrdom in every fibre of her proud, sensitive nature during all the first months at least of this trial; but I cannot but believe it.  She never spoke of her own feelings to any one but her husband; but Sarah writes to Sarah Douglass in August, 1869:—­

“My cheerful spirit has been sorely tested for some months.  Nina has been sick all summer, is a mere skeleton and looks ten or fifteen years older than she did before that fatal visit to Lincoln University.  I do not think that she will ever be the same woman she was before and sometimes I feel sure her toilsome journey on this earth must be near its close.  The tears will come whenever I think of it.”

But not so! the sisters were to work hand in hand a few years longer; the younger, in her patient suffering, leaning with filial love on the stronger arm of the older, both now gray-haired and beginning to feel the infirmities of age, but still devoted to each other and united in sympathy with every good and progressive movement.  The duty, as they conceived it, to their colored nephews was as generously as conscientiously performed.  They received them into the family, treated them in every respect as relatives, and exerted themselves to aid them in finishing their education.  Francis studied for the ministry, and is now pastor of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church of Washington city.  Archibald, through Sarah’s exertions and self-denial, took the law course at Harvard, graduated, and has since practised law successfully in Boston.  Both are respected by the communities in which they reside.  John, the younger brother, remained in the South with his mother.

Mrs. Weld and Sarah still took a warm, and, as far as it was possible, an active interest in the woman suffrage movement; and when, in February, 1870, after an eloquent lecture from Lucy Stone, a number of the most intelligent and respectable women of Hyde Park determined to try the experiment of voting at the approaching town election, Mrs. Weld and Sarah Grimke united cordially with them.  A few days before the election, a large caucus was held, made up of about equal numbers of men and women, among them many of the best and leading people of the place.  A ticket for the different offices was made up, voted for, and elected.  At this caucus Theodore Weld made one of his old-time stirring speeches, encouraging the women to assert themselves, and persist in demanding their political rights.