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116 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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It Is The Afternoon Of A Hotfull Summer ...
to accompany him to liis own room . We never saw him again awes —alive truck . As and we wen th hea t up tin -stairs hear , ts at past nig one ht , solem we crep n door t swif . We tly ,
held each , other ' s hands , as g our fancy , pictured that which lay within . Then came another funeral , and strange faces of men ,
and of whom I stood we knew , cling no ing thing close , bu tog t who -eth directed er , as , upon everything our ret . Georg _frorn e
long the - cloaks funeral were , at taken which off we us had by acted the under as chief taker mourn , and ers an , the old white-headed tleman—an assiI believe—told us there
were nothing for gen usand that we gnee mus , t make our own way in the world . Neither , our father or mother had relations in
onl London y wit , nor men had of t business hey many , and friends my . M ther y fa ' s ther health had , combined consorted
w Some ith domes merchan tic unhapp ts who iness had , known had long secluded father her procured from socie for my ty . brother and myself junior clerkshiin merchants'
countingps s t ouses reet in ; and Isling a ton cheap I was gin to g * receive was taken a salary for us of in sixt an pounds obscure
George of fifty pounds . , a year , to begin with ; and with this , incomeand without helor friendswe beanas orhansthe
battle of , life . I was just p thirteen ; , he was g twelve , p years , old . of The recen change t bereavement was great and of hel terri lessness ble for both of an of incom us . The rehensible feeling
, p , p toge change ther in , and all loved things each , depressed other then _-qs . terribl I had y ; a bu feeling t we clung of an elder close
fulfil of bro man ther it ' . s du ing We ty our t were o wa house t quite ch k ee v unused er pin g or h to el expenditure p money G-eorge , an , and ; d and k t ried the har peop hi d ng t le
we who at our were had lod got taug gings us ht took situations sternl advantag and thoug sharp e of ht our l they t inexperien ha had t w done e had ce enoug . The hel h ; men and to
exect from _, but ourselves y . Life y , became an earnest and p a terrible p thing for two poor boys left to fight its hard battle
ex alone perienced , unfriended —how , and una bitt ided er . tears How we many shed a sharp t night trials when we
alone together ! many , And so my young brother and I lived and worked together ,
har and d , in work the . At firs the t years time , loved of which each I write other merchants warmly . ' It clerks was were very
at Fri work days twice till midni a week ht , on or even _" fore one ign in post the ni morning ghts / ' Tuesdays . There were and
no pleasures , , no g holida , ys , no rest , in . connection with our
business drudgery . for For more twelve than or two thirteen days in years any I one was year never . It abs was ent love from
p treats less lenty , joyless his of others horse , hopeless , could and it be work was foun . perpetual d You to supp were ly ly intimated your treated place as to . a you cabm , that an
116 The Record Of A Vanished Life.
116 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/44/
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