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252 THE BECOBD OF A VANISHED XIFE.
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great out very grief anxiously for who suitable hadstrangel schools y . little Henry of left her hom brother e witb 's
tenderness : went Mary with , . an undisguised , alacrity , . The to years , rolled with on until and Henry means went ( rather to sea cri . Mary led by came my
better home dear boy class ' s stay premium of school me and to outfit finish my ) shoul her d education enable . her The pp to old go home to a , dullbut pained
wasI knowquiet—it was , I daresay , ; I was to note , how , unwilling to how my she girl longed was to for stay incessant with her gaiety old father , and ;
to I ok was but sorry little care see inor interest for , our old home and ways . natural I had fan that cied the female , nature should different desire gaiety : but , still and I I did thoug all ht that it young
indul lay a girl in gent to my lose power sympath a moth to y mak , er full e whil her of e h wishes appy yet a . , chil to It make is d , a and great my I left Mary loss was , too full happy , to of
in arm her -ch own air and way book . I went forewent out my with own her pursuits to parties , in , order my to quiet give
her diligentl pleasure . In I society had , long lost irl all was taste livel for y and parties gay , but : at I hom wen e t _,,
unders she moped tood y . each and other seemed , as my my discontented g boy and mine . I She did could . and There brid I was never an
impassabl the between quiet our e home gulf natures , deli which . ghts She no . cared Her effort p nothing leasure of * was for book in dress s , music ge , show over , or , ,
society She , soon and exh the austed louder , the outer society world of . the village , and then she 1 After much troubland
dili longed gent to enquiry go to , her I found finishing one that school seemed . suitable she , and foun she d e bad left
friends home full there of who delig _developed hted antici all pation that . was I least think estimable in my
irl ' s character , . There wasas I learned too late , a were poor cli conversation que g en of grossed elder was g b irls y of the whose matrimony one whol subject e . , minds Sill of y , , marriage thoug heartless hts . , , tendencies frivolous All their ,
without one them any e of was woman —not ' in s pure worth worldl , or or n nobleness oble point love of , or view —but delicacy but marriage at , their ,
rate successful , marriage minds , if possible somehow admitted , , and no a other with y idea someone ; th . eir Their lives ; vap contained id and any
nauseous becam no oth e er , I aim fear or , entang object led influences than in its this realization and set . she Piers had . M — was y poor not irl Mary the !— i
no character mother to . Ah resis had t such her mother onl , y lived!—and yet poor , perhaps g , it was better as , it was . It may be that my poor wife was- I
spared Mary much and her sham brother e and did wretchednesK not agree well together in . the lasf > I
252 The Becobd Of A Vanished Xife.
252 THE BECOBD OF A VANISHED XIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/36/
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