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401 RIGHT OR WRONG.
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little sofa I while could , and overlook begged the they large would garden leave half me leasure to rest groun . From d , half my
, p orchard , in which I had esteemed myself most blessed to snatch a few minutes with betrothedIt was still early in the summer
when I first fell ill my ; now the falling . leaves began to strew the paths in which he and Alice strolled for hours together . His manner in
he his addressing bent former over b her antering her had the subdued assumed air ; as voice they a deference in wer which e walking he which oke , the contrasted showed way in he which with was sp ,
not insensible to , her exceeding beauty , to the young mind expandof ing the and freshness ennobling of childhood itself beneath and the his fascinations influence , to of that wom combination an , which
in those few weeks she had rapidly acquired . He had been more or less than manhad it been otherwise ! Still not a -word , not a
movement , indicated , that the project in which all my surviving hopes were staked—his union with my sister—was nearing its realisation .
rejection I saw that of his him hi , gh interposed sense of between honor , even them thoug ; while h fearfull I persisted I also saw in that her my . the the gnawing anxietwere telling upon
Her su beaut spense y , became more shadowy y , , the sunny brightness y which seemed her peculiar attribute was fading fast ; except at his approach _,
her more cheek tremulou was deadl s each y pale day , . and In the answer hand to extended my questions she to meet , not she his worth , would grew
cry of him bitterl and y , that and he entreat knew me it to well be : silent then , sometimes saying , with was her former y impetuosit , y , she broke out into prayers that I would send her away
and leave her to her fate . " Unknown to her I spoke privately to Eustace , and , telling him my confirmation
own in the opinion hysician of ' s my face state made , of it which solemn I had prayer gathered that a if I died my
sister should p become his , wife . my But he would not hear of deatli ; he dwelt instead upon liferecoverya renewal of our engagement ,
and altogether met my _reqiiest , with , an opposition , which , though once solely more based made as I knew my brain full well reel upon with his thoug strict hts princi I had p fancied les and delicacy for ever ,
laid at restand filled me with the despairing conviction that my , sacrific away 46 Then , and e had I his jud noug constant ged ht it availed better presence . for , thoug us all h to authorised part : cradled Alice by our was amidst relation wearing mis
taken ship , was tenderness but prolong and ing indul the strugg she le to was which wholl , unequal : and I named the day on which he was gence to , leave Bath . I y saw by her fixed
about eye and the ashen house lips like , that a troubled her very heart irit and when breaking he came ; she to wandered the side sp ,
of rny sofa to bid me farewell , she rushed from the room . " _" I ' Dearest took courage Eustace . ! I did not think to have renewed this subject for this world
again , but indeed I do not feel as if I were long ;
401 Right Or Wrong.
401 RIGHT OR WRONG .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/41/
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