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390 HIGIIT OB WRONG.
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after slie had done so , she threw the letter across tome , saying in a . mortified tone , ' There , though you never show me what he sends
to you , you may read this ; he just writes as if I were a little girl . ' "' My darling , how can you be so silly ? consider how young
you appear to him . What would you have him say ? ' " ' Young ! ' she said , as she drew up her graceful figure , and
stood before the _glassi ' You always make me out so young ! I wonder you do not keep me in baby-clothes . You are so grave and
old yourself , Anne , so near his own age , that you forget twelve or thirteen years are nothing between a man and woman . I am more
on an equality with him than you are . '" " Cruel , unfeeling ! " the listening Margaret here indignantly
ejaculated . " Hush , hush , my child , it was but the fruit of over indulgence , of
mistaken fondness . Even at that time I could make those allowances for her , and forgive her petulance . When seeing me weep at
these and similar remarks , she would fling herself upon my neck , and sobbingly implore my pardon , saying she knew not what could
move her to be thus unkind to a sister she loved so dearly . And thus we went on , such scenes perpetually recurring ; a harassing
perplexing time for me , though I tried to reason myself into the belief expressed by our family physician , that Alice would be
restored to her former happy self as soon as she inhaled the breezes of our native island , and mingled once more with the companions of
her childhood . " Everything was now in readiness , trunks were packed , farewell
visits paid , and the day arrived wken Eustace was to rejoin us . He had named ' no particular hour for his return ; and we were in
the drawing-room one lovely summer morning , I in that trembling fearful happy expectation with which we wait for those we love ,
Alice arranging some flowers she had gathered in the garden , when he entered unannounced .
"I forgot all my _reserve at that moment , I forgot Alice's presence , and her jests at my being sentimental , and sprang forward to meet
him with a cry of joy . When I looked round again my sister had disappeared fc .
" Did you remark her , Eustace ? You have never seen her in a good light before : is she not beautiful ? ' . "' I only saw youmy own Annethat was enough for me ;'
, , and then sitting down , and drawing me close to him , he whispered words of deep loveand confidenceand hope ; how that we should
, , never part again , and that but a few days more , and the prayer remembered in the bivouac , the desert , and the battle-field , would be
fulfilled . Again , as on our first meeting , the consciousness of intense happiness well nig h , overcame me , and I felt as if it would have
been sweet to die , so loving and so beloved . " But ere a few minutes were past , the thought of my sister came
upon me , and I turned , restlessly to seek her .
390 Higiit Ob Wrong.
390 HIGIIT OB WRONG .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/30/
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