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92 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.
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•The Pastor Replied: " Dear Elise, I Wil...
health rendered it quite necessary that he should have assistance . into stone before
" Give good heed to yourself ; you'll be turned long soul , ever " was returns the warning from a soj addressed ourn in that to the house young . " Volker man , " however no living ,
, was of at a traction young about man , and what at is his unusual time of and life mysterious there is always . Trav a degree elling , had
and a residence for some years as tutor in a nobleman ' s family , the entirel freshness y relieved of his him heart from and student the earnestness awkwardness of his , and feelings yet preserve , precious d
qualifications He did feel for however his holy office rather . He eerie had the no fears first for evening his living when soul he .
crossed the grassy , court , , ignorant of the side entrance , and pulled become solemnl the rusty y accustomed throug wire h of the the to silent the front dreary house door . pressure bell The , whose Pastor of his himself tone household sounded , who , had felt so
Elise quite ' s uncomfortable first reception at however being thoug obliged h di to gnified introduce was much a stranger more .
friendl inion y the than he had man , expected must have , ; she formed knew very of her , well and what in sort ite of of sp
her op indifference young was woman enough to wish to , make a better , Vicar impression At was table absorbed , upon however him in , . she contemp relapsed lation into of the the old beautiful silence p , ortrait whilst that the
remained for so long afterwards the only pleasant tiling for him in the houseThe Pastor interrupted the silence by saying : " You
. were a tutor , I think , " — " Yes , for three years , in the family of a Silesian Count , " replied the young man with animation ; _"it was
look the most came deli over ghtful the Pastor and ' profitable s wife , as time the young of my man life . , " animated A strange by
the allusion to his friends , depicted in glowing language the happy p the tors famil athy quiet awakened y between life b of enevolence that him them household to , of till the the at consciousness , Countess last the wide the - si , spread gnific and that the , ant influence he warm silence had been love of of the and his guilty Count audi sym of - - ,
of a great a household want of which tact in contrasted allowing himself so painfull to dilate y with on the the mi happ sfortunes iness
of the one he had now entered . But the eyes of Blise were moist as she bad © him good night , and when , troubled by various ht
the thoug footsteps hts , she of laid her herself husband to rest as he , she paced heard to till and late fro in in the the ni room g
he overhead had not , excited lost also but by alas the ! never picture found of domestic . "While happ the iness husb which and
life was all thoug mi asking ht hts have himself of self been , -reproach , what mine share so and rich onl of y blame so whispered blessed was his to " , herself and Elise she repressed " avoided such a ;
all self- accusation by wild comp , laints , against fate .
92 Constancy Misplaced.
92 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/20/
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