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396 RIGHT OR WRONG.
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_ -«» *• ( Concluded From Page 339.)
Yet of fond lie forgave delusion me in , lie which added he , for had the lived rude for awakenin I had shown g from frankness ten years
at the last ; and would strive to think of , me with kindness when he could " As forget he was how leaving well he the had room loved he , and paused how , he ill he looked had until been back ceased , requited he gave to .
hear me time his to receding recall him footsteps , but I that moved my not iron ; it composure was not gave I way , and fling b last - seen ing ing myself him face stan upon in d the , again the cushions ground and of again , I the kissed , sofa wildl the y I , moaned desperatel place where and y . writhed I Then had
in voiceless my agony , till a feeling of approaching , death stole over me , sh and ivere I d thoug , my ht limbs , and knocked welcomed together the , thoug a marble consciousness ht , that hand I seemed was dying closing . to I
round my heart , but I had sufficient remaining found creep up next to morning my room in and the stretch stupor myself of a violent upon my fever bed , and , where for many I was
"days For my weeks life was I de remained spaired insensi of . bleillness had assumed this ; my
type tasked . Perhaps and the for deathlike a long lethargy time previous in which my I brain sunk had was been its result over- .
I never , raved , never even spoke , but lay motionless , senseless , from with " The g having lazed day up emp I - came turned loyed to eyes her myself . to assist I found me a durin not nurse to g let , my whom mother I well 's illness indeed knew , ,
I sitting was too by weak the bedside to articulate . She had but orders she saw by the look me speak I cast ; round the weep with room ing my with sister whom j . oy I She soug hung was ht over , lo and , oking me gliding as more she away whispered beautiful returned all than in her ever a love moment , , and and ,
, thankfulness " nerves The nurse too at sh then my attered preservation signed to to endure her . io even leave the me , rustling for I was of too her feeble dress , ,
my much I closed _, less my the eyes emotion and of groaned , her presence faintl . y ; As but she I was stole not out in of the a state room to ,
pursue that she any Was connected well , rej train oicing of that thoug I had ht , happ been ily spared for myself to her . , I and knew I
strove to rest satisfied and think no more . < fc So tible strangel degrees y was that I reduced I emerged , that from it was the only mental by slow torpor , almost which
impercep precluded any , exertion , of my faculties : it was only gradually that was I _learned soonest from able the to ph endure ysician who that attended the fever me was , and attributed whose voice to the I
dent effects . of The long good watching doctor used and , to intense demonstrate an failed xiety by to after corroborate numerous my sister anecdotes that ' s
acciof similar caseswhich the nurse never , my had keep carried ing up me till , to the the very utmost day _limits when of she my was remaining pronounced streng recovered th ; that , lete
all necessity for exertion being then at an end , a compcollapse
396 Right Or Wrong.
396 RIGHT OR WRONG .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/36/
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