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122 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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It Is The Afternoon Of A Hotfull Summer ...
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were written , without much attempt at plot or story ; and their who subjectiv le tone e rather and sp than irit was objective not likel ; dealing y to ffect be with popular the took world . them They within down were ,
and wanting in adventure , incident , e . I the ago , other written evening when and I myself reread was them so . different They were , tha written t they other so seemed
longto me in many parts like the productions of some man . Then , again , some passage woke the feelin it g whic told h w th as warm ht
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had I they confess not y had been attained I , reverenced more the widel partial the y popular success irat ; ion I th was ey the did almost effort attain surprised of . that And dead that yet , \ i asp
self of mine , ; I was half proud of the , honest labour which , ! amidst so many discouragements , and hard throug towards h so heavy hi a h pres and
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122 The Record Of A Vanished Life.
122 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/50/
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