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CONSTANCY MISPLACED. 89
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•The Pastor Replied: " Dear Elise, I Wil...
li Elise ttle being had never as a new expected cause a for girl , and lain alread t . All y looked her hopes upon for the a
w successor ith rene to wed her fideli hero ty must , and vanish trea comp ; ted so she her treasured husband his and memory child
possible hear with ted increasing in that spi the te coldness of attractive this . dry Little ways atmosp Julia of here the grew : little it up was heal child , t hy should t ainly , g not not
htnow and then have a charm for the mother ' s heart , and at t t imes child ligh t up y manifes the weary ted eyes increasing ; but as resemblance the further to development the character of of its fatherto whom the little one instinctively devoted itself
the heart of , the mother soon closed again . It "was always a , deli and gh she t to stretched the baby out when her her tiny fa arm ther s towards carried her him into whenever his stud he y ,
appeared t into a corner soon of the she room could and walk amused , she herself trotted with after the him old ,
worm Juli crep a was eaten abou engravings t four which old lay her about mo the ther floor led . her Once into , when the
called sanctuary the , miniature but she tried " years an to l pull blac , down k man the " warrior from that ' s sash time , for and - ugy _;
ward the room was , shut against her . The gradual estrangement of the child was onla new evidence to Elise of the depths of her
poverty , and she fel t it to be a retribution for her own broken faiththat the heart of her only child did not belong to her . Her
husband Elise , heard , however the , father lived and again the in child his li laug ttle hing daugh merril ter , and y in when the
t g houg arden h , she she herself shut her had window refused and to turned away them with out bitt of erness doors . ,
accompany The Pastor took charge of Julie ' s education—a task not likely to yield him much credit . The little one learned very slowly , more
from obedience than from good will , and though in general a On brig t he t and other livel hand y child how , ev sh owed she no learned great very power quickl s of y apprehension to knit from .
her grandmother ; , the maidservant , taught her to spin , and she was common soon very na indus ture trious fit for and making expert with and her mending little hands " was . < c Qui men te tal a
conclusion her mo , ther came towhile she left her , to her own ways . The mother of Elise died , soon after the birth of her
grandhus child band , deep ' s mo ly t her tressed however by the a kind joyless -hearted life of woman her daug fla hter ttered . her Pier
self in her occasiona , l visits , to her son ' house , that , by dint of her improve courtesy matters and consideration but she also to was her quite daugh misunderstood ter-in-law she by woul the d
that cold , her unappro son achable would ; some Elise , day and break was g out lad in to comp hurry laint home s over , afraid the
conduct of his wife , when assuredly she would have been at a loss what to say in reply .
VOL . XI . J £
Constancy Misplaced. 89
CONSTANCY MISPLACED . 89
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/17/
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