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838 RIGHT OR WRONG.
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then I knew breaking besides into how tears dangerous . It wrung in the * my still heart weak to state hear her of her cry , eyes and ,
, any prolonged 6 Where is weeping little mig cousin ht prove ' he . saidin his rich persuasive
voice " " , Will ' my sister not my soon ive ? me ' But Alice hand , onl Alice y answered , ? Have by you her forgotten sobs . you gyour ,
you how the I used finest to shells carry ? you We over will the do rocks so again in Guernsey ere long that , and . Meanwhile gather makes for
herself we must so have unhap no py tears ab , out or wil else l never those precious look brig eyes ht again . Anne Ah , that's a good girl ! ' for the poor child relenting " , half stretched alland with out her his
frank hand " I . stood winning ' You when by will , grace so in be glad , my he , so bent loving very down I little g cursed lad and ; sister and that kissed yet after hour her the on and , day ' the wishe has forehead d been the . , Margaretfrenzy ,
earth , had , swallowed my me up ere Eustace Irton and she had thus been " Eustace brought Irton _together ! that . " was the name of Harry ' s father ?"
" Even so , Margaret . " " Oh , my poor aunt !"
_•& _•& _•& _% ¦ _^ " For the three or four weeks that followed , scarce a shadow crossed of Eustace
indeed my longer happ to comp iness prevent lained . Alice her of being , his reconciled en much grossing to alone the too I presence mu generall ch of y my contrived attention , that no ; '
, almost all the time he passed at our house we should spend together in her He often murmured at thisand remonstrated
company . , idol with to me which on my injudicious freedom indul of thoug gence ht , — and on my action setting even her was up to as be an my
sacrificed . Yet what was I to do ? If I abated aught of my acwas customed unconsciousl attendance y prolonged _tipon her , if beyond a stroll the with time Eustace I had in promised the garden to siht
were return again so , imperilled she many would things . fret The I and longed sacrific weep e to , was and confide her very still to great him precarious dear , to to myself talk to g over ; there was , she to
ask in return , which the presence of my sister , me as wasrestrained me from ; and the opportunities for our speaking alone , were too rare , too hurried , to permit of my fully opening my ht of
heart , of dwelling on the long sorrowful years when the thoug honored rounding our early that love gloom was rare ; a of constancy guiding showing star on hiin never which how lost time I throug appreciated and separation h all , the how had sur I -
, had no power . I had been so long disciplined to reserve , so long accustomed to avoid all manifestation of my feelings , that even to
not him yet they find could courage not suddenl to frame y be in words laid bare what ; even had to hitherto his ear been I could but
a voiceless aspiration of my soul , much less could I face Alice ' s
838 Right Or Wrong.
838 RIGHT OR WRONG .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/50/
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