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88 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.
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•The Pastor Replied: " Dear Elise, I Wil...
must be brought to the task , else the school time is lost . They did not possess the common faith which is ever the most powerful
medium of assimilation ; Elise had demanded _hapiDiness from Providencefull lete happinessas her due ; and she looked upon
her misfortunes , comp as a passport to , Heaven and its blessedness ; she fancied herself released from the necessity of all further strivings .
The deep holy mystery of faith , hid from her by the rationalistic education she had received from her father , had never touched a
chord in her heart . When she listened to the preaching of her husband , who , deeply imbued with the truths of Scripture , did not
content himself with floating on a raft of his own construction over never ri merel depth gorousl y s allowed which to y his form he a acts knew word a and standard to to omissions impress contain by , inexhaustible her which his own words she heart and mi treasures ght but his measure silence if , any she . admo did most She it
nition seemed directed against her faults or state , of mind , it only excited her displeasure . It was the dearest wish of the _Pastor's
heartand often formed the subject of his secret prayers , that he but mi onl g y ht we path , be know where enabled how li to g seldom ht lead and this a peace ph reb ysician ellious can m attends eet and the wayward to he the avy health laden soul to heart of the his ,
own household , and how unwilling a judge is to settle small- disdwelling onl putes from at . home the The pul , advice and it Stern and which so had missed it was as little ri its ght influence de for sire him to over preach to give the in was one his heard heart own
for y whose benefit p it , was principally intended . Elise became more and more convinced that her sad joyless marriage was a
punishment for her unfaithfulness to the ideal of her youth . She devoted herself all the more passionately to the nourishment of her sombre
recollectionsand troubled herself still less to cultivate any flower of domestic happ , iness .
Hope entered the household : the hope of a young fresh life , wife which a mi bri ght ht be prospect a closer for bond the of future union between although the neither husband of them and
spoke and ; who of it under . g Elise her hoped tuition for would a son grow , whom , up she to be woul a strong d call Oscar high- ,
, would spirited nourish beautiful his boy , the 1 soul very with image all the of her dreams buried of her hero former ; she young
years , with all the hoped-for greatness and freedom of the fatherlan Her d , which husband still made smouldered no plans in , her but mind he . hoped that a fresh young
life would brighten his gloomy household , charm away his wife ' s bore reserve The a , decided child and reconcile was resemblance a daug her hter to to the her ; her present father little . - face Elise from ' s mother the , very who first was
mo with ther to , coul receive d not her understand first-born child so was coldl possible y ; but so it young was .
88 Constancy Misplaced.
88 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/16/
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