On this page
-
Text (1)
-
MO TBE SX0B5? ®K QUEER J&iBEE *
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
__ - A __ A Liittiie Book This Is, Bound...
How Sapping it . befell her life j . and She shudder ask'd 'd not when , but she she took knew .
Her Throug Of lonel place h all cells beside the to senseless her which lord that , sp and lendours news ever must drearnM of her come Court , , y
, , Vague Breaking notes brave of scatter hearts . _ed sorrow Then tardil from y those came cells up ,
And here and there she heard how one was dead , D Men ying said of grief not which , or want . ?> , or solitude ,
Now arises a great combat in the lieart of Isabel ; who asks herself if unloving marriage be not in itself unholy , and argues to
herself in the old , old arguments which are awfully familiar to many in modern days , as well as to the wife of worthless John—
" Can a worse sin be Than scorn and loathing in the place of love ? Is it not sin to live so joined to sin
You God ' s needs law not must kept drink for its fear breath it should ? A be ye , broken 'tis pollution , ! And Once liberty boldly broken and love , may and be heavenl kept for y peace ever ;
Make _ISden , in my heart , . " , And so on to the end of a very powerful page .
Again she applies , but this time more directly , to the faithful ageborrows his dress , orders two horses to be in waiting , goes
p , to the prison by moonlight , " Scares the soldier with a shower of gems , " and gains the cell where , glooming through the darkness ,
she becomes aware " Of reeking walls _unwindow'd , rusty chains loom farther off
Broken , and in the grey g A quiet man asleep upon the floor . " Creeping nearer to the " quiet man , " who lies wrapped in
childlike slumber , she turns the lamplight to his face , on which " A little worn and pale ,
The habit of heroic thought was fix'd , And could not be misread . It spake to her With such a revelation in its speech
That she beheld herself for what she was , And 3 _STot him what ; she shame should strikes have her been down * — Ah she , pity kneels her — , she
falls—And stifles all her sobs against the ground . Gives but a moment to her swift remorse And grudthat—unworthy even to breathe
The air his ges presence purifies . She prays That if he grace her with a passing thought _*
How Pie may base believe a hope her beguiled virtuous her , and . Was not dream it hope ? Now seems it on the other side o the earth
Farther and worse than death . " ,
Trembling and silent she unlocks his qhain _. He wakes , rises , his
Mo Tbe Sx0b5? ®K Queer J&Ibee *
MO TBE _SX 0 B 5 _? ® _K QUEER J _& _iBEE _*
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/22/
-