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SUCCESS AND FAILURE. 255
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a pretty flower garden from tlie park-like meadow through which lie liad been walkingand went the steps of a verandah , which
, up ran along that side of the house . The windows were partly open , and he entered a lainlfurnished drawing-room . It . was empty ,
but through the folding py doors , which were half open , and over which hung heavy curtains in foreign fashion , he could distinguish
a room which looked like a library , and at a table in the room Dora seated writing , and Wyndham . beside her . He could see
without being seen , and paused a minute . Dora's figure had acquired matronly proportions , but she was radiant with health .
Wyndham seemed dictating to her . Every now and then her thoughtful eyes were fixed on him , as if to catch his meaning , and
then she went on writing . Once Wyndham put His hand caressingly on her head , and Arthur could see her bring down the hand and
press It was it to a her picture lips of . breathing , living home happiness , which would
have affected and charmed most persons * . Not that these two happy ones had not had their share of earthly trial . They had lost their
only child , and Dora , who was passionately fond of children , had suffered Few realise according the ly bitterness . to a mother of this the most pathetic
of all sorrows . It is like a physical wrench of part of her own life , when the lifewhich is so mysteriously bound to her own , is severed
from it . There , is something unlike all other sorrows in it , and it often leaves a species of mental exaltation behind .
Dora had been , as a girl , pleasing and intelligent looking ; as a womanthere was a soft animation which was charming about her ,
but now , there was something beyond . An expression about the with their soft shadowson the white smooth forehead where
eyes a few faint lines miht be , tracedon the somewhat thinner and g , paler cheek , that was absolutely lovely . A sorrow borne not as a
cross , but as a crpwii , leaves that look . before Strangel him y which enoug did h , not however excite , there Arthur was ' s sympath something y . It in altered the scene his
intentions too , for after looking on with knitted brow and set lips , he quietlpassed through the verandahwalked to his horse , flung
half a crown y to the man who held itand , returned to town . It may be concluded that the part , y man , the man of the world ,
the embryo statesman , found something in this scene antagonistic to him in one sense , and overpowering his selfish calculations and
setting them at nought in another . What could he offer to disturb this serene quietude which could compensate for it ?
It was destined , however , that the friends should meet once again . Wdham was called from the country to be examined before a
committee yn of the House of Commons . Arthur was on the committee . There was a question before the house which depended on the
decision of this committee , and which would probably overthrow
the ministry . Arthur hoped he should be a member of the new
Success And Failure. 255
SUCCESS AND FAILURE . 255
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/39/
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