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RIGHT OR WRONG. 829
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I care not to record the outpourings of bitterness with which my word companion of chiding had become 1 or a symptom painfully familiar of impatience , but that . " never My child elicited , " she a
said so long , " you as thi but s earthl repeat y the life cry endures which , with miserable its unsolve humanit d mysteries y will raise , its
untold sorrows , its unceasing- tears . I know , too well I know , there are moments when despair seems closing- round you , and you think it
idle to talk of consolation : but from this thick darkness , this horrible dread , look up in faith , remember who made grief familiar
to His soul , and you will not remain forsaken . Nay more , my poor stricken child , the day will surely come when you will bless
God for all He has left you still . The child , Harry ' s child , to clasp in on your with arms his , and eyes _^ draw and its smile nourishment on you with from his your smile bosom ; to ; cherish to look
you , and tend for earth , to train for Heaven . And far more , even more than this—the beautiful memory of him who is gone ; the joy of
treasuring , without alloy every incident of the period , brief as it is in mortal reckoningyet stored with precious recollections , which
you passed together , ; the scenes together visited , the prayers together prayed . Oh . all this will set itself before you , Margaret ,
and a softened light , like the glow remaining after sunset , will shed itself over your existence !"
Like one unwilling to be persuaded , I answered coldly that she spoke well , but as all those spoke who had not drained the cup of
sorrow to its dregs , who merely theorised on the duty of submission . " Yet I have known much affliction and bereavement in my time ,
Margaret . I have seen death strike down those dearest to me in succession till I was left alone . My only brother , my father next ,
then my mother , last of all my sister—my child she seemed rather , she was so much younger than I—his mother , dear . "
" But I have experienced sorrows of that kind too , " I cried , " and know how different they are to this ! My darling mother
died when I was fifteen , and , as my father soon married again , and became estranged from meI went through a great deal of
un-, happiness at home ; but then , just as things were at their worst , I met Harry , and all grew bright . He at once filled up the dreary
blank in my heart ; he replaced the mother I had lost , the father who looked coldly on me ; every regret for the past was laid at rest ,
every dream for the future was fulfilled in my love for him . Ah , such love as this is unlike every other sort of love ! It cannot be
weighed in the same balance , or discussed in the same tone ! When I lost mamma , dearly as I loved her , youth , hope , energy , were
not all buried in her grave . Ah , aunt ! if you had felt as I now feelyou would know how hard it is to be resigned !"
, " If I have felt ! Oh , Margaret ! " I saw it all at last , dull wretch that I had been ! All that , but
for the absorbing egotism to which I had given way , I should have
comprehended long before : how this woman , so calm , so saint-
Right Or Wrong. 829
RIGHT OR WRONG . 829
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/41/
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