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THE PORTRAIT. Ill
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usuall more y felt does and to an Mrs elder . Bethune , for in having early years had the differences start of of me age by are as
many seasons , as I had numbered , I naturally regarded her as a guide As the and growth guardian of . a blade of grass is invisible to the most careful do
observerwhile nevertheless it continues to grow , in like manner the links , of all human chains cease after a time to be the same . We do not at first perceive their transformationyetlike the leaf
, , perpetual or the flower change , they , is are the as law surel . y And and certainl thus , althoug y chang h ing I . saw Change it not , ,
circumstances were undergoing this unavoidable process . Master Edward as hitherto spoke Sarah as much as brisk nons and ense , notable and was as as ever impudentl and I y was familiar also
we we _apjoarentl left call Eng circumstances y , the land same ; consequentl , yet changed none y , of our with us conditions were them exactl . Every b y eing the , one ch same anged knows as , before what the
colle impossibilit ct the y same of living friends twice round over us , the we sam may e try experience to mak . e the We same may
, parties we are that all changed were made yet onl know y last it year not , , but until the some attemp undeniable t is a failure and ;
, striking In Sarah occurrence I began reveals to see the ( after fact . having been long blind to it )
unmistakeable the causeThe signs heaviest of discontent item in , and her from list of her grievances own lips was learned the
. had solitary become life to so which constant she had a visitor been consi and for gned this ever cause since and Mr none . Cleveland other ,
she disliked the artist . " What b , rings him here so often ? " was the invariable winding up of this part of the subject . "I think by this time
Mrs . Bethune has had enough of him and his pictures ; she will just make meant herself the Louvre ill again ) " and with poring going to for the ever —what at her do you drawings call Sarah it ? . " _" ( would Sarah Had
her mistress really taken a fit of illness , I believe have been rather glad of it . It would have restored her occupation , as when indisposed or loio , Sarah was always to have with Mrs her .
late Another Bethune or rather , grievance indeed earl the was hours onl that y one for Master it the was latter Edward generall cared continued y mornin his g near before revels he to . y
the foun conduct d his way of those home she . Poor love , d best Sarah —her was mistress thus rendered who seemed irritable to for by - her
And get often her this , and indifference is the the way nep . of hew the M who world conscience never ! Affection bestowed smote me and a for thoug fidelity I also ht _reiD upon had aid been , too . by y
careless , of worthy Sarah Dermid . Mrs . Bethun , e seemed restless declared and more that excitable she did ; nothing every trifle but scold annoye him d from her , morning and her till nep ni hew ght .
Of Cleveland , I shall only say , that his eyes , if possible , became
more The beautiful reader must , and not his whole suppose bearing that I more was losing charming 1 my . heart solely
The Portrait. Ill
THE _PORTRAIT . Ill
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/39/
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