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BIGHT OR WRONG. 391
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_ -«» *• ( Concluded From Page 339.)
"A look of displeasure overspread his face . " ' What , already leaving me , Anne ? Can you not give a little
betwe time to en me us ? f' Is this duty to Alice to be perpetually interfering
" * Dearest , she would feel hurt if you did not ask for her ; she is now so very fond of you , dear Eustace , and to prevent her having
a thought of jealousy , have patience if I try to show her she is not neglected /
" * Ah ! Anne , Anne , is it always to be so ; am I to have but the second place in your affections ? Is this eternal cry of duty to your
sister to be raised at every instant , have you not a duty likewise to me ?'
"' Bear with her a little , Eustace—she has always been accustomed to be the first object , and we must not let her feel the change too
suddenly , poor darling . Consider , too , that she is sure to marry before 66 Ah long was , and it come then to I this shall , that have the ho child thoug my ht mother but you ' s . ' dying hands
, committed to my charge was acknowledged as a restraint , that I had owned I wished to part with her , or at least implied that lier absence
was indispensable to my happiness ? - "Was it not a failing in my trusta disregarding of that solemn vow which I had invoked the
, Almighty to give me strength and constancy to maintain ? With contending feelings , most painful but undefined , I went in search
of Alice . 66 She was in her room , kneeling by a chair , her face buried in her
arms , her long brown curls falling over her in confusion , and as I approached I saw by the convulsive heaving of her prostrate figure
that she was weeping bitterly . " * Alice , my child , what is this , what have I done ?'
" « Oh go , leave me , go away , go away altogether—I wish to be alone—I wish to be left here—I will not remain any longer with
you " ! ' AliceAlicehow can be so unkind ?' you
" 1 am , not unkind , , it is you ; you no longer care for me , you make me feel that every moment !'
" ' How ca _, n you say such cruel words ? In every plan for our future life Eustace and I remember you—you will never leave us
until Unless I such surrender an one you is found to a husband we shall , never a husband part with worth our y of little your sister love ! _.
" ' It is all very well to talk so now , but what does Eustace care ? I am nothing to him , less than nothing ; he did not even notice '
me when he came in . I know you are always glad to get rid of me , and so you shall . I will not return home , no , I will go to some of
our relations in the north—you shall not be able to say I am an incumbrance to you * I dare say I shall do well enough—poor
mamma will pray for her lonely child ! ' " ' AliceAlicehave I deserved this ? '
, , , " ' Why do you cry , Anne ? you who have everything' before you ,
you who ought to be so happy ? '
Bight Or Wrong. 391
BIGHT OR WRONG . 391
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/31/
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