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104 EUGENIE DE GUEBIKT.
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more striking , raore winning than ever ; consumption had yet set her fatal mark him and very soon after the marriage , cough
and fever increased upon in an ; alarming degree . His sister , though left him in April to visit another invalid friend at
Nevers very uneasy . Soon , howeverevil tidings followed her . Maurice was , , worse , and his physicians recommended his native air . She
rej ness oined , to them La Cay : they la . travelled It took them _Tby slow twent stages y days and from with Paris infinite . At weari the - in
fir ecstaey st sig of ht joy of . the " La paternal Cayla ! home La Cay the la poor ! " he young exclaimed man . was "We sup an - it must be seen from afarfor a view of the chateau now
before pose usmarks it out as at the , top of an eminence , the ground , falling There steep is a ly most from touching the terrace icture . of the closing days in Eugenie ' s
p Journal , which which must is too be long iven to . Althoug extract , h but his we poor come wife appears across one to g
have passage taken her full share in the attendance , it fell to Eugenie ' s lot both to prepare her brother ' s mind for receiving the last rites of the to it
Church , and to give him his last earthly food preparatory . U I took it , " she says , " as a privilege granted by bod God and to my sisterl lto y tender idear
brother n onl ess that I notice . X . was . and It allowed may bless seem Providence to nothing do the last ; for it is services letting nothing , me , in do y fact these , to sou offices any , bod for y s el my se , y
many dear Maurice months o before f passiv he e friendshi left us . p . Sad Was , but I ineffable wrong to compensation wish to wait for upon so
him ? Who can tell ?" The beloved brother died on the 19 th of July , aged
twentynine On — the eight whole month , it s is after perhaps marriage most . fair to give at length Eugenie ' s
first letter to M . Hyppolite de Morvonnais , though it is written a of year her after brother . Leading 's death the till life nearl of y a ten hermit months , this after friend it had had taken never p heard lace ,
but then wrote at once to Eug 6 nie . She replied at once : — " God be praised , sir , you fear are " not 19 and Juillet lost believe to ( the us by day death oth of his or death Without forgetfulness ) , 1840 that . ,
should for do your you have think silence left I had should made to be not me told have b written a Journal to of tell one the you or loss of of er our a . friend grief— ? that Alas I , ! y
you no ; loved and I our have poor more you Maurice than once ; but thoug having could ht of had you be no in letters my tears nor , for resp I the onse knew from that
then Being you on did at any anything Paris occasion , I saw com , Maurice I e thoug from ht you announcing you . irl To is whom too his marriage , no at the longer for Vale to among you , could , and but I not write kisses living even to .
announce his death ? Your little g * young anything , or question Then s , ' Where still is there your and father still ?' a widowerand alone and sad ? God
knows " how you I are have wished , you all consolations , —the sweet and powerful * Madame de Morvonnais ( Marie ) died some years before , to . the deep
grief of her husband and friends .
104 Eugenie De Guebikt.
104 _EUGENIE DE _GUEBIKT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/32/
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