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CONSTANCY MISPLACED. 153
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th . an a tribute of affection , that Elise her daug ic alone hter in soon the world ceased to
venture The chilling an embrace constraint , and again of her mother was weighed heavily upon . " the frank-hearted Julie the lonelwinter appeared to heraccustomed
; y , Iier as age sh , grief oppressivel _$ had but been J y uli to long e the was . livel At y first companionshi , and the a quietness young p of neart g suited irls is of well not her with long own
, young , entir burdened elin with the a course weight of of nature sorrow as , at hers least had when done the . She loss ofte comes n re so
proached y herself bitterly , that quietly and gradually , bright youthful of her thoug heart hts had she found remembered entrance however into the d the ark mourning dying words chamb of her ers
grandmother think of me , with ; " Don love 't vex and yourself j , think too of much , me when about you me , look my child up to ;
sunshine the blue in heavens and , now and and not then on oy , my a g dark ladsome grave song , " and was so heard she let in the the
Jiouseand , ten times a day her light footstep sounded on the stair , . as she tripped gaily to her father ' s room . round cheeks in
The Vicar need not have held brown eyes and of such the light esteem irl ; in he that was dreary soon forced house to was confess like the that freshness the presence of a
once . sparkling that young streamle his g t in turned a barren from waste the , blue and it orbs happene of the d more pictured than _, gaze
Victory certainl assuredl , , y and did no not world rested of upon hope what the had is round c as alled yet cle a suffered ar poetic child n shi ature eye pwreck s , ; she in . which had Julie a _, possess
sound jud y gment in all practical matters of life , but was utterly tears thing unconscious , neither Her of whole had any character the undefinable _witchei was _^ y long of genial moonli ing after and ght health a ever mysterious y moved and almost her some to
unknown . to herself had she been nourished by the pure , elements of nature , light and air , flowers and sunshine around of her . The
_sensitive which Vicar never had able , poetic certainl gave , and room y ten imag for der ined the nature sli a cheerful g woman , hte but st Julia misunderstanding ' s soul ' s confiding to which be in frankness , her a more land im- ,
_^ are His perturb called study household adjoined good temper that virtues , and of , the her he found Pastor more ; activity faile and , d and however to , more hear the deep attractive Eng bound ly he .
_^ ing mi detailed ght step be some upon absorbed little the stair event in his , to or work her the , father he sound never of the merry voice as she
-. the The stiff old arrangement silence still prevailed of the room down was stairs sli during htly ch meal anged time by , but the
g introduction lantsand of other a prett traces y littl of e a workbasket youthful hand _, a . coup Julie le of generall window y
Vicar accompanied p , should her be g father lad to in join his them walks . , and It is it true was that natural Julie that never the
Constancy Misplaced. 153
CONSTANCY MISPLACED . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/9/
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