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THE EECOSD 'OF A VANISHED LIFE. 115-
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It Is The Afternoon Of A Hotfull Summer ...
became and books . still The and glories solita of rom world ance . and When the del I came ight of out drawing of this ry
my it world was , a I keen was unhappy time , of ; ming in it , led I was hunger interested of and languor , excited dreams , of , happy stolen and :
pleasure and of open disappointment , happy jarring When realities I was . nearlthirteen oldthe news came to years
school that our poor mother y was dead . We , were fetched home great hurriedl so shock terrible y , to to attend to both childhood the of us funeral . of I well the . near It remember was a great the of funeral grief death and ; ; the the a
awe , , presence feeling mother , again half . sad How , half painfu strange l , , how that mysterious we should , is never that see dread our
_a nevermore !" fri secret He Our htened looked thoug father very us ht was b I ill could the , much ver s y attribute trangeness haggar changed d to , — and of the more his death anxious man so , of indeed n ; er our and . poor , He than at drove times mother in my us ho . - '
from g him savagel y y one day ; at other times he seemed unusually gentle and tender , especially to George . I had but alwa he 3 s called the keen
inner sense that my brother was his favourite , us , win pity e ing , was ly , uncertain his u poor in , poor his temper hoys . " , irritable He not drank , ent nervous back a great to even school deal , and of
whollunlike his old self . We were s Graduall and had y whispers a strange reached presentim us from ent servants of some that impending our father evil had . _^
Lad great y misfortunes in business . His conduct became more and singularand his manner repelledterrified us . One
more , , knew day we —we heard were he too was made a too bankrup unused t . to The the world details ' s we way never s , to young
understand them . "We heard , that some great speculation had totallfailedand had ruined our fatherHe shut himself up
y , . , kept and we aloof half from desired us to ; but sooth we e saw were how half terribl afraid y of he intruding was chan upon _ged ; _,
him . Then came men . in _jsossession , , preparations and the dismantlement for a sale of
furniture of the once , the handsome dismissal mansion of old . servants George , and I lived lonelily in our old which was left bare of furnitureand we
telli speculated ible nursery events together , . We upon . sorrowed the meaning together very of each these accordin , to us , g , to unin his
different g characterand were drawn closer , together than we had been since childhood , . One morning , one dreadful world morning wrecked , our
around poor father him was and fo the und proud dead in merch his ant bed . could His not surviv was e the loss cam of weal e into th and our , position roomspoke . On tenderl the evening to us before for some his tim death ewith , he
an unwonted gentleness , in his manner y , but sternly forbade , us-
The Eecosd 'Of A Vanished Life. 115-
THE EECOSD ' OF A VANISHED LIFE . 115-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/43/
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