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¦ THE EEGOKD OP A YANISHED LIFE. 255
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silence gee ! After fall round the nois the e track of the of the departure receding , a shi great p . She hush speeds and
world away , — swiftl the y world and noiselessly of death— ; wings the realm her mys s of tic separation flight to anoth . M er y
fancy sense of comes utter back lonel from iness regardin a chill g numbness those pictures of desol with ation an . aching Oh
great sea ! to what mys , tic regions , to what far and unknown , shores do thdark waves conduct !
time Mary to time has y never letters returned came from , but her she ; lives sometimes still , in full India sometimes . From
, while could almost . I fe loved But eling , her * perhaps I still answere , , I her esteemed d fine them could woman no as more cordiall ive ' s sense . to y I , could as detected kindl letters not y do , that as the it I . ,
I dare say no effort of mine gmy was colouri there ng of love respect for — the the . dear homage little of child esteem whose . Love pretty , I , tearful know ,
face was ; hidden in my breast as we stood beside her dead pang pure moth , . er and . "What I happy always need child try for to . think the Ah ! outrage she of M mi ary , and g the ht as unblessed have a pain chil spared d she still gave — me a littl roe that ? e ? ,
Perhaps Wh After y descend it a tim to e natural , clandes her letters tine She intri had became gue other colder tiesother , shorter associations marriage , fewer . .
was . , old Could father I blam , who e her was for quieter forgetting and the silenter quiet still , silent little ? She cottage irl had It — two the
grandchild a children strange . feeling She I had sent never to me me once seen to look , a should picture upon never of the her features see . It g of mi knee . g the ht little h was and ave
long known crushed , at and its that loved golden little me curl ; photograp mi s g against ht hav h , e my climbed in its breast black upon . I frame my looked like long , a ,
mourning envelope . The face somewhat resembled Mary's moth when and loving er a shine child irit ; throug but renewed , looking h the in tender her deep descendant ly eyes , I , saw and . the fan soul cied of that Mary pure ' s
The last sp news I ever received of Mary , not from her , were that she had lost her first husbandand had married again .
She never wrote to me after that second , marriage . I shall _grounds never Perhaps see for , , never th after at hear coldness Jier from elopement towards her and again her , there me letters . , that may manifested sort have of "been distrustful some
aversion Those , who which have Jbter anything conduct to conceal , those who are conscious . of something in themselves which conscience disapproves who , hate
the always culprits those feel gifted with with instin " the ctive seeing certainty eye ; " those and repugnance can , as , look through their deeds , and discern the speck in character
¦ The Eegokd Op A Yanished Life. 255
¦ THE EEGOKD OP A YANISHED LIFE . 255
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/39/
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