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BIGHT OB WRONG. 837
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3 _& a < £ _pourfcrayed , true and unchanged , returned to seek Dae as Ms _wifenevernever more to partoh ! it was such wild delirious
happ , iness that , my heart throbbed , , niy brain reeled , and it was luxury at last to weepto weep upon his breast , and assure myself
, went it was away no dream I remember . I know being not * struck how with long a we feeling talke 1 of d , self but -reproach when he ;
, for the first time my poor imprisoned child had been forgotten ! I went to her and found her fretting and displeased at having been so
long alone : she called me unkind , said X was tired of her , and that she supposed this tall major from . Bengal would now engross all
say time . < s I had intended telling her everything that night , of our long at
_tachmemtj Mdmy refusal of him two years before ; how my letter , _delayed as I imagined , only reached him in his distant cantonment
& twelvemonth after it was written ; and receiving just _afterwards . the announcement of our father ' s death , he at once applied for leave
* o ± absence , though the difficulties and formalities he encountered - kept him months beyond what he originally contemplated . I meant
to have related all this , and to have told her besides what a bright future we had traced out , how happily we should all live at Les
Ormeaux , and how he wanted me to promise that our marriage should take place immediately after our return to Guernsey ; but
way confidences were now checked , and I tried instead to reassure her , to appease her ill humour , and make her cheerful again .
Poor child ! my conscience reproved me when I was longing that _evening for the hour at which she usually retired to rest , that I
might find myself alone with my great happiness . " I never shall forget the sensations with which next morning I
opened mv eyes to the dawning day ; the whole world seemed so full of joy , and the sun shone with a gladder brightness than of
yore , while . _& s I stood before the glass I was struck with the change in my face . As if by some magic influence , I was restored to my
earlier self ; the light had returned to my eyes , and the smile to my lips ; I was almost beautiful , and for his sake , Margaret , I rejoiced ,
" That day , after he left me , I took courage , and gently and lovingly spoke of what had taken place to Alice . She was very
much distressed at first , and accused me of forsaking her , and being false to my trust——that was her usual weapon in all her little
quarrels with me- —and she persisted she would not see him , no , not though I asked her with tearsand she was determined to hate him
, all her life . On his next visit I told him the result of my announcement , and how she had positively refused my entreaty to receive
him . Seeing how much this disturbed me , he looked grave , and said she was a spoilt child who must not be given way to ; then
her with little gentle sitting but irresistible -room , h @ authority entered , it , desiring without me even to asking conduct her him per to
mission . She was sitting in almost total darkness , rocking herself in a sort of disconsolate way backwards and forwards on her chair
, singing snatches of "ballads in a plaintive little voice , every now and
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Bight Ob Wrong. 837
BIGHT OB WRONG . 837
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/49/
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