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152 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.
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girl in deep mourning threw her arms round her neck and whispered amid tears and deep emotion" Motherdear mothernow I
, , , belong to you alone ! " Elise had not seen her child for a long timeand now when she looked at her by candle light she could not
trace , in her features the slightest resemblance to herself or t & the lost brother whose name Julie bore . The Vicarwho heard the
noise of the arrival , could not restrain a flutter of , excitement when he was called to _sujDperand was not a little annoyed at the violent
, beating of his heart before entering the room ; but how sadly was he disappointed , and with what supreme indifference did he , after a
polite salutation , turn away from the form which so little corresponded to his ideal ! Not a trace of the tall slender figure , of the
bright golden hair , the delicate complexion , and the deep blue eyes of the Victory in the picture . A . blooming brunettedarkinnocent
, , round , childlike eyes , whose brightness had never been dimmed by nights of watching' and tearsor hard study of any kind ; a plump
rounded figure , dark braided , hair , " the very image of my mother , when she was young , " was the whispered assurance of the happy
Pastor . That was nothing- to the Vicar ; what cared he for the image of the departed wife of the Burgoineister ? He had had a different
very different youthful image before his mind ! Julie had never won- , dered what the Vicar was like ; she scarcely remarked him at this
moment , and thought it rather annoying * than otherwise to find a stranger located in her home , whose dreariness she had long
forgotten . Her grief for the death of her grandmother , the first sorrow of her young lifewas so overwhelming that she fancied she would
never be quite happy , again , and felt quite indifferent to outward things .
This sorrow was on her very first return home a bond more likely to connect Julie with her father than with her mother .
Elise had liked her mother-in-law well enough _^ but her presence in . former times had always seemed a silent reproach ; her
oldfashioned ceremonious "a politeness had wearied her , for she did not look deep enough to perceive that it had its source in a refined
loving nature , and so her grief for the death of the old lady was not excessive . To her father , however , Julia could pour out all
her simple heart-sorrow ; she was never tired of speaking about her grandmotherof her goodnessof the kindness with which she
had cared for , her happiness , and , of her peaceful death ; neither was the father ever tired of listening .
Elise was by no means so indifferent to the love of her child as her manner indicated ; and it was with a feeling of bitterness that
she saw how the father and daughter drew together , but as she had been too proud to allow herself , to seek the love of her
husband , it was not likely she could stoop now to woo her daughter . She drew back with such cold reserve from Julie's
timid caresses , which seemed to her bestowed as an alms rather
152 Constancy Misplaced.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/8/
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