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THE BECOKD OF A VANISHED LIFE. 251
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huge cap green , rushing surge mountain hid her from their sight . When , it passed they saw fast that Then the firs th t mate's black boat was str full of
water heap where , ing and on was the hi sinking boat her and had hi been . her . yet More . ey The waves saw wind a ; wave shrieked , after ugg louder wave ling
and sweep louder ; the , g sky was clear g and light , of a pale , amber colour , but round themlabouring low in the trough of the seathe
waves were dark , and blackly green . They strained their , eyes —in vain : there was no life to be seen upon the waters where
late the other boat had been . All thought of help was vain : the boat and all the souls in it had perishedand niy deardear
boy You was remember drowned in Herbert the wide when , wild the sea news ! , came to England , ?
Ah ! I need not recal , l that , time . I invited I went some to London of the , and sailors heard to the come particulars and see from me : the I could captain not .
hear enough of the details—I fixed them in my memory , listening How kind with the morbid sailors _-avidity were to to the the dreadful sorrowing facts fath . er . How
Mary well My they . second I hoped spoke child , of much my was from boy a that daug her when was hter , gone named she — was gone after born . . her I th mother ought ,
out a son into would the one world day to fly seek away his from fortune the old but , quiet I fancied nest , and that go a daughter would long remain the liht and ; joy of homethe
dear companion of _declining years , rendering g help and effluent , of charm . I fancied that the sacred influence of womanhood
was Mary secured was , to in the earl littl y childhood e cottage , home one . of the prettiest children
I have ever seen , and her little , wilful infantine ways were , clustered to me , most in floating engaging masses and endearing of waving * . curl Her , long and , her fair dear hair do ,
not brig use ht eyes the were word of fine a violet " as blue it is . commonl She was y used a fine — child that . is , I as a synonym Her character for bore u large no " resemblance —but in its to true that sense either and of her meaning mother .
or myself . She had nothing of her dear , gentle mother ' s pensive at my tenderness times grave , not sadness . She a little .. had She imperious nothin was always g—I and was livel as y not , her active sorry mother , gay for , that but used — was of to
wife think ' s , death with pain both , somewhat Henry and hard Mary , . Up , were to the educated time of at my home poor .
of them At age her an . death As injustice , th Henry ey grew to was keep up about I them feared eig longer ht , , after and with a Mary trial me about , , it and was six I looked , doing years
The Becokd Of A Vanished Life. 251
THE BECOKD OF A VANISHED LIFE . 251
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/35/
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