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254 THE BlECOKX) OF A VANISH-ED LIFE.
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by atures his — success he and yet wealth , brother by the world : our -wide childhood had many our
n common mem was oriesand my his letter was a pain to me . I fear ,. tooit stirred my , indignation and awoke my pride . I know
would it aroused , have my made sorrow you , no for good I kn wife ew too ; was well not that fit to my be poor the wife girl
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fancied to from her Portsmouth — old that lonel once y — father a she letter was . curt about A sentence and to dry speak , was out yefc begun her it I in whole thoug , and love heart then - and _^ -I
welling regret scored , throug and up in tenderness h her . heart I supp . , and lied It th the may at want their have ; expression been continued that was feelings restrained she , were left
behind by sham her e , . by Ah a ! conviction why need of such the pain pain have and been sorrow ? for India
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for me sunset . ever Strange . , . Both The , son sea sad gave and pictures daug them I in hter not my went back mind , away ; , th are ey th the never at which sailings way returned , I and did of both not the to I I I I two shithe one which didand the one
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254 The Blecokx) Of A Vanish-Ed Life.
254 THE _BlECOKX ) OF A VANISH-ED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/38/
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