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118 THE BECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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It Is The Afternoon Of A Hotfull Summer ...
of it was business suited attained to his pursuits some , of and its had rewards , in stoop . He ing took to the a better world
the advantage lodg old ing , and to , found lod his ing interests associates he inhabited . He connected left better me with ; I quarters his remained pursuits and alone moved and in of
in a different , poor sphere g . ; We never exactly quarrelled : our natures differed The world and our of business paths diverged has its . victors and its victims . But
is how fair terrible and the good price and which noble must in life be paid all for hig victory h hope ! connected All that
, , ; which with life must ' s great be laid end and transformation the altar of success —these in are business the sacrifices ¦! upon
return pursuit But George again of weal on went th earth . He . The He old became harder time was keen and broken more and eager up worldl —never in y ; the he to
became engrossed . in his pursuits grew , and absorbed in the struggles to of pay commercial a terribl success e price . for He it . attained He looked success upon , but every seemed thing to with me the standard of
gain still an eye ; : but the to profit me test he of ; he interest desp measured ised . , and I pitied every estrangement him thing warml by increased y and loved as him our lceased
of paths between contempt diverged us ; he for wider shunned one who and me , wider in , and par . t did willing Intercourse not restrain ly , remained gradual business his expression y so ained poor ,
and him , made I saw so , with little deep progress regret in , that business I lost . As the brother _gr of my youth And and then love ensued . for me longlonely years of saddest
endurance and sorrow . How weary , weary and , how long they were , onl one y and the twenty God who years sent , Oh them God , knows !—I . passed Oue , and from twent my thirteenth y
yearspai to It my n and all four sweeps unchang and thirtieth before ing weariness me year in , one in . that long The low , memory dull hell dream of aches business of to unbroken think . of
too it again bitter , and against thoug those ht _jthrobs who surrounded as with shoots my best of pain year . s with If I such am a curse—if my indignation , not at personal vivid suffering and intense only , but
trial forg at the ive and wrong me how , Heaven and keen cruelty ! the Thou suffering I witnessed knowest ! , _, be onl too y Thou , how long the
—The , world of businessas I found itwas a world without a God . Cruelty and baseness , knew no restraint , of human but law fear , little
men dread who but for of money had loss been or the successful terrors grew so familiar . Many with _, danger , that they years forgot prudenceand , overstepped the thin
boundary which divided the countin , g-house from the felon's dock *
118 The Becord Of A Vanished Life.
118 THE BECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/46/
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