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250 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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He After had an Keen absence to India of rather China more the than Mauritius two years . How he returned much , he .
gallant had to tell fellow me ! he How was , ! grown How , he fall was ! of What manhood a handsome gaiety , ,
laug tenderness hing with ! His cheery clear mirth blue ; his eye sun , open hair -burnt with his bonny kindl young y , fi honesty face ; ,
strong his clusterin and active g locks ; his of them li dark ght , chesnut with firm , bounding fath ; ' step gallant pride —I and see gure them with , so
all a father before ' s sorrow me , see . His pleasant a voice er and s ring , ing laugh echo round me as I write , and extern fill the al lonely onl little room
with sented hap his py inner memories goodness . And and his kindliness graces . How pro y repre ud I - I went to church the Sunday after his returnleaning
was as , little upon village his strong envied young me arm 3 noble All boy the . lit M tl y e worl step d was of not our
his so strong as old of father yore , and ! Many how my tenderl bright y he eyes helped rested _^ and admiring supported ly
upo God n grey how his sunny ferventl face y ! as and we stalwart knelt again stripling together form . , for I thanked having
broug , ht We him stopped safely back reverentl to me as throug we cam h all e out the of perils church of the to
we look deep spoke . at his together poor mother , , in low ' s , grave hu y shed , . I voice little s , thoug of her ht that that day was , , as a
saint in heaventhat he would go so soon—so very soon . I thoug shed ht proud he would and , happy often lo tears ok at that it when night I lay . What beside good his mother friends .
I thank God ! while he remained with me ! I never hearts we tired were of listening , near to his together descriptions during and his tales brief of last the visit sea . to Our his
home was an . were For unfortunate very he came one once . _-s— They and no had more and almost . about His , unvary second fortni ing voyage ht bad I I
the weather sail water from ; ' and the ed when Mauritius homeward boy , the behaved shi bound p took , nobly fire . and The a was crew burnt saved g to ' s I I
themselves s in the ge . boats My and made for the Mauritius . My son I was in the first mate ' s boat , which kept together with the one I
fresh and one in which in leak they which y . the Four Henry captain days sail was after was was After . , the very Both desperate shi deep p were was in efforts overcrowded lost the , it water they then — succeede , blowing was but the old d I I I I
in down attracting , to tak saw e them her a attention on . board . . She But altered the wind her was course in dead slow and against tacks bore 1 I
_n her Mauritius A fierce . She gale was sprang , such far as up off are , and and common came increased towards in the every nei the g moment hbourhood m in of fury the . . I I I
The two boats , were about a mile apart , and were kept afloat , I
250 The Record Of A Vanished Life.
250 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/34/
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