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118 SUCCESS AND FAILURE.
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Chapter I. Two Men Sat Together In A Sin...
mechanicall " Sit down in , my a _^ position dear Dora which , '' concealed said Arthur _ner , face and fi Dora _? oni : her sat _coiisin down _*
" I wished to y _teH you that I have received letters which will oblige me to leave you , I had not time before Wyndham came , to tell you ,
and you left us so soon this morning . " Happy " " In When those a few do who you days have go I ? " must not said placed Dora recommence their . feet the on this stern iron duties path , of which life .
allows of no suspension or relaxation . I have already lost a good deal of time" ( that was his mode of alluding to his visit to his cared aunt and for ) cousin " and , , must during work which dili he gentl had yor been I shall so tenderl find myself y nursed laid and : on
the shelf , when I least expect it . In , public life if one steps from the ranks a moment one s place is filled up . " A sound like a sob
attracted his attention , and he rose and went to the side of the couch on which sat his cousin , when he saw a pale and convulsed face , and a
form trembling with emotion . Dora , usually so calm , had lost her self-control , and was violently agitated .
He sat down beside her and took her hand , which she yielded to there him silentl be one y . circumstance Poor Arthur which wished is more himself utterl a thousand and wholl miles vexatious off . If y y
than anotherit is a sense of one ' s own inadequacy to meet the just demands made , on us bthe deep feelings of another . There is more
humiliation in this than y can readily be imagined or explained . In weak natures it invariablrouses aversion and dislike . Arthur was
riot vindictivebut he felt y a positive hatred to his cousin at that minuteHowever , we do not live in the palace of truth , and the
thoug out of ht . this " What an , " infernal translated bore itself this is .. in , how this the manner deuce . shall " Dearest I get
scrape , parting dep Dora as dear lores , how , friends we this grieved shall cruel I trust I necessity I am am sure that You meet more I must should often than get ; be over I and do forced this often ; but tender to again this leave suscep is , you and not , tibility always no a final one , ;
. which would make me very happy , were I in a position to interpret it as I could wish . " These were the words which fell on Dora ' s The
insult ears , and they which conveyed , barel was y heard unpardonable she by her , cooler , were but was and never less calmer forgotten thought . of at it :
possible the Arthur time whom that , than I I am love later not d when as mad a brother or dreaming was ? " There , " thoug is a ht clairvoyance Dora . ; " " is in Is this the
nature soul of of , a her person cousin who was is laid suffering bare . de It epl was y , and a pitiful to Dora sight the not whole ' _from
, the absence of love to her , but from the utter want of truth in himself . And as she felt burning in her hand , the little crumpled farewell
note which contained Wyndham ' s passionate and agonised , y her ielding her she , thoug as he ht supposed of her , mother to the man dying she in loved the next and room who love ; and d
how ; crushed as beneath the weight of ftiese two heavy sorrows , she ,
118 Success And Failure.
118 SUCCESS AND _FAILURE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/46/
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