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CONSTANCY MISPLACED. 157
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tonied to receive from her hands , only her voice did not sound so joyous as usual , and over the clear child-eyes lay a mist of
sadness . This was the child whom her own mother had regarded as a
common-place being , because according to her idea she possessed neither depth nor elevation of feeling ! Still the passive
countenance of the mother gave no sign that a milder thaw-wind had unmoved passed over , but her paced soul ; restlessl but when y up she and was down alone the , , betray she sat ing no le b of longer y her her
violent movements , and half-muttered speech , strugg heart . The Vicar had communicated his good news to the Pastor , and he was astonished at the coldness and indifference with which
the young man seemed to receive such a rare piece of good fortune . His paternal heart had sometimes imagined that a certain question
would follow such an announcement , and it was with a slight feeling of disappointment , that he noticed with what apparent
indifference the _yoiing people regarded each other . Volker felt often patern broach sorely al temp the mediation subject ted to , open to but her Julie liis father heart had , that so to earnestl he him was , y and towards fain besoug to to p ht lead conrp the him married l for y not with his to
her request , however , he felt almost a hatred pair , whose unnatural conduct threatened to destroy the happiness of his life
. A few days after that eventful evening Elise was alone in the housethe Pastor and Julie had set out upon a long excursion ,
the Yicar ; had gone to the Residenz , partly with a _hoj _3 e of meeting the Count , and partly with the purpose of obtaining
his release from the ecclesiastical court . Elise sat absorbed in deep thoughts , thoughts which rushed like a pent-up stream
into the troubled waters of her cherished melancholy , and stirred up feelings which , had long lain dormant in her heart ; her diary
lay ings before of maidenhood her ; its pages till recorded the commencement her history of from her the married first h d flown awn life - ;
after that she had not continued it . She read the higlanguage brilliant dreams in which her she noble had expressed resolutions her . Life hopes had for then the lain future before , her
her rich in promise , as a green corn-field ; where was now the harvest ? She read her _mailings for the beloved lost oneher vows
, to consecrate to him her life , her whole being , vows which she had repeated upon the threshold of her marriage . She had kept them ,
all strength of action , all strength of love had only fed the flames of this sacrificial fire . Now there lay around her nothing but ruins
and ashes ; her own heart was turned to stone , her household was waste . She tried to consider if it were possible to further the
happ given iness up the of desires her child of , her who heart had ; so but quietl to the y and love uncomp . of her laining husband ly
there seemed now no way of approach .
Constancy Misplaced. 157
CONSTANCY MISPLACED . 157
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/13/
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