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336 RIGHT OR WRONG;
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Jud " Aunt Wa G S Ing Anne She 1 As Tig ...
my dread darling of blindness 1 on tlie eye supervening . A violent , was inflammation the result . , with For the several agonising days _^
I was in the most miserable suspense , but gradually the surgeons ' the hopeere long changed into the assurance , that not
gave me , main only . was Oh her , I si was ght so unimpaired thankful , so but unspeakabl that no disfi y thankful gurement ! Still would , as re if
to were several temper enjoined weeks my deli in as g a the ht darkened , the guarantee utmost room precaution of and recovery not , the ; attemp she most was t the patient to sli remain ghtest care ,
course employment devoted of to her her eyes I . used My to whole read , aloud time for and several thoughts hours were each of ;
and day , onl a screen so much being li drawn ht admitted across that throug part h of the the half room -closed where shutter she sat as , y g voice failed
she enabled would me call to see me ; to or her else side when , and I was laying tired her , and head my on my knees , , while I smoothed and fondled her silkhairtalk of her hopes and
projects " Her , mind and all was she always meant running to do as soon y on as balls she , and was parties recovered , and .
entering and it into was the in vain same for train me of to amusements endeavor up to as moderate I had done her before brilliant her ;; and dis
visions . If I but offered a suggestion as to the weariness - appointment failed to that remind might me lurk of amidst all she the had fascinations heard of my of gay society doings , she
never in sister my young It days seemed , and like begged treason I would against not our show mother myself to a blame strict the old
now . poor restraint child for these her signs or suffered of wilfulness me to . do She so ; had but now never that imposed I saw
her any standing on upon the threshold , of life , already flinging off my control hard and making it would lig soon ht of become my experience to exercise , I si the ghed authorit to contemp y with late which how I
was invested . " But I must not shrink from what is coming : my own story ,
usual Margaret I was . One summoned afternoon to receive when I a visitor was sitting , who did with not my send sister in his as
name , . The first moment that I entered the drawing-room , a com-. manding met view figure , the standing next he in was the embrasure by my side of , and one of taking the windows both my , my ;
hands in hisbefore one word of greeting was exchanged , gazed , into Anne my V face I could with not his speak earnest , but deep my -searching answering the tears eyes look the — sufficed anguish ' My own for of
have those him , and ten passed long folded years to his . , were How heart all , I the forgotten love suspense d him as , , the Margaret sound , ! of God waters forgive that
me if I err in away saying this even now ! " But I had been so lonely , my youth so darkened ; his memory and
beloved had always the been thoug to ht me of him something had so so encouraged inexpressibl me y throug precious h all I
suffered ; —that to find him now returned , nobler than even my fancy ,
336 Right Or Wrong;
336 RIGHT OR WRONG ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/48/
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