Of course in a novel, peoples hearts break and they die and that is the end of it and in a story that is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living yet to be gone through and this yet remains to Augustan. – Uncle Tom’s Cabin