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A STRANGE CHANCE. 407
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+ Chapter, Iii.
trembling him"Do as not she excite spoke yourself , for slie , dear feared George the , but effect our it hoped might -for have visitor on
, is An come influx . " of life and strength seemed to rush into his
feeblenew ness sister at ! these where words where , an is d she nervous ? I ly knew exclaiming that she , " - Oh would , Elizabeth come ! , my his
eyes She quickl advanced y soug , ht and and with found much the p emotion lace where laced _Augiista her hand was standing in one of . p
the wasted hands , extended towards her from beneath the coverlid . Her eyes were full of tear have s as , looking to upon and his with face the , she _qiiickest said ,
speed " Yes , possible yes , dear / M friend any , long I years come have "you passed , since we spoke to one anotheror since I even heard where my friends were dwelling .
But time and , absence and silence cannot destroy truth , and my heart last night responded to your appeal before as warml and y as if there we had
ming shaken led h with ands it and a feelin parted g but as if the a day spirit had ; called yet upon , me , was for bd ilence make us sirits to one another . " An eye was
asence ansp with resting all upon its her of as sense she spoke seemed , which striving drinking to quench in in her a few presenc short e power
moments , the thirst of many , weary years . As it read the beautiful words story of passed the face into , a crowning George Gilbert satisfaction ' s coun — t a enanc contentment eand pressing beyond the all
hand that , remained , within his own , he murmured , , " You are good , very good !"—then , in a lower tone to himself , " and have been worthy
of all !" Augusta took _, her seat sat by his down side in the her chair Their Elizabeth position usually
t occup ical ied and , and Elizabeth the latter felt it so , * Augusta near had . stepped into the was last scene yp , separating _^ them visibly—as spiritually she so long had done .
long And lapse , what of was Augusta to the to death think -bed and of feel a man , summone whom d she after intui this
years the tivel truth y knew of her had nature once love and d her her ? belief She in had his responde goodness d to joined his call , too as ,
with the ted yearnings . She trusted of old that affection the wish both to for see him her and was his , but sister one , had of
past promp those in long the ings breasts which of those sometimes who are surge near up death from indications . the She dep had ths of looked of life the ,
that that its on unmistakable entering had she had known , entered for happ stamp wife into iness and of a and anguish strange children love , , — mystery and had for Elizabeth alone the of _jDain met ' s pale her but . face she She , a could with felt
, ask no questions to remove or confirm her fears respecting it . George had silent folded , and his peaceful hands . , and After was the ly bleak ing like and seemed an sorrowful enigy to on have a voyage tomb fallen — of meek his ,
life some , on sweet the oasis very of shores repose of , where death his he soul was fondly lingering upon ere not
entering through , those gates beyond which knowledge passes —
A Strange Chance. 407
A STRANGE CHANCE . 407
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/47/
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