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    RETRIBUTION. 245

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    ^ "I Have Done A Very Good Morning's Wor...

    what raood she would be in . Sometimes she was creeping close to petting sure times " cousin half me teasing and Susan chattering " half with coaxing a on particular about metill her confidential I own forgot pretty every manner fancies thing she ; but some had the - ,

    nonsense She she spoilt was , talking childI about think anything and , she or always nothing had . her own way ,

    was a , , because with her no and one as could her impulses oppose her -were . It invariabl was wasting y good words and to kind reason and

    _o-enerous , it did not seem much to signify that she had no idea of heart wayward anything , , but it both was just so more good following as that a child if them she mi . could ght If be be she , trained was and a her by little head a strong wilful and kind and her

    were hand hardl she tell had : but a noble she was happy such future a child before still that her it . -would If not have —one seemed could

    cruel y to dissect her character even as much as I am now doing . In into fact I thinking never did was : my there sp ever eculations anybod then y so simp charming l watch y resolved as her Margaret themselves , and to

    was Stephen there . Always ever a p def leasanter ying him sight in than words to , and always manner implicitly guided by him in her every thought and act . W d e used t believe o say sh in

    was reality creature the that who one , much person "was reall as who we being opposed all looked moulded Step up to and n ; him an transformed , she yet was I b the y him one .

    A chance worda careless y expression , which she laughed at at the time as absurd , had its fruit next week or next month in Margaret ' s

    , life . And I think while it was good for her that her wayward nature

    human should nature have some so also anchor it was , even very thoug good h for it Step was hen but to another be with faul her ty .

    He was unconscious , of his own influence over her , and , as in word and manner she refused him the deference we all gave him , laughed what she

    there called at his more his stern dictatorial gentle grave in ways his manner jud , and gments , he even was and at more times less natural anxious mimicked when to place she him was

    lieve superstition self on , those a pinnacle two to think souls above that were frail marriages destined humanit by , are Heaven y made . Yes in for , Mary Heaven one , another you . I call do ; it not be a -

    merel b as elieve much y because each of Margaret nature I know would ' s as all have was Step yet improved hen awakened ' s heart by contact was was his set with , upon but the because her other , and I ,

    throug and they h each mig other ht , b 's y lives God . ' s I grace think , have no one been noticed help this and but blessing myself ,

    years of Margaret a in fresh such was relation close so comp companionshi arising letely at among home p with with them her them cousins would hen all , , and have that had knew any sounded spent idea his

    strangel own heart y . and I mean his own , of hopes course ; , and to all I believe but Step each hour . He of dry dull

    work in Dublin was lightened to him by a bright vision , coming . -

    Retribution. 245

    RETRIBUTION . 245

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/29/