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RIGHT OR WRONG. 335
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disciplining' to self-restraint and _self-forgetfulness tlie character whichhad as yet known no control . But I could not gainsay my
, mother ' s will , and Alice , seeing * her daily lifted to the sofa , constantly encouraged by her assurance that she felt no pain , and
could not be much worse since she was not obliged to keep her bed , lived on comparatively unconscious of what was impending , merely
contemplating * danger as a remote possibility , praying in childlike security that she soon might get well , —till one night the rude
awakening * came . Hurriedly roused from her sleep , she was sumfeeble moned arms to the clasped sick room her in ; a a pale last embrace face smiled and at a her dying approach 1 voice gasped , two
, in broken accents , ' My child , God bless you ! I give you to Anne , she has promised to devote herself to you . Remember , Anne ,
remember ! ' And her spirit passed away , and we were orphans . " Nearly a twelvemonth succeeded thisduring which we remained
, in Bath ,- —at first inexpressibly sad and lonely ; yet gradually , as Alice regained her former cheerfulness , a gentle twilight sort of
feeling anxiety and stole fati over gue me T had , a undergone sensation , of which repose was after surprising all the to intense
myself , considering the uncertainty , the restless doubts , the vague expectations , that , in spite of my efforts to banish them from my mind ,
were connected with the absent one in India . " He had never replied to my letter , but having seen in the
newspapers that his regiment had been ordered to a remote station up the country before the time when it could have reached Calcutta ,
I fancied it not improbable he might never have received it , though sometimes tormenting myself with the fear that he had
misconstrued the motives of my decision , and judged me cold and insensible towards him . At other moments I could not help
fancying that whenever he heard what had taken place he would surely write , and thus an opening present itself for a renewal of
correspondence , from which I involuntarily found myself drawing bright anticipations that brought back the glow of hope to iny heart-, and
restored to my cheek its bloom . " The reason for our remaining so long in Bath , where , owing to
the constant illness and mourning in the family , we were little knownwas that I might better superintend m . y sister ' s education ,
as I would , not trust her in a boarding school , though urged to leave her at one in England , and return to stay with some of our relations
in Guernsey until the second term for which our house had been let expired . That time at length came . Alice was little more
than seventeen , expanded into still greater loveliness * and rejoicing with all the buoyancy of her nature at the prospect of returning *
to her native isle , her emancipation from masters and lessons , and the delight of coming out , when , only a few weeks before the
period fixed upon for our departure , as we were walking in the country , unconscious of our dangerous vicinity to some quarrymen
blasting rocks , an explosion took place , and a sharp fragment struck
Right Or Wrong. 335
RIGHT OR WRONG . 335
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/47/
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