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404 BIGHT OR WRONG.
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insisted necessary I should to their still comfort preside , identified , and apparentl with , the y with home no over wishes which beyond they
the fireside which they both said was not complete without me . The beyond very affection endurance they thus I yearned displayed for , " solitude was at times to be a constantl torture y almost alone
. , with and despair God , . to He cast was before merciful Him , Margaret _^ 1 my loneliness , He enabled , disappointment me at last , to hThe fierce iningthe impatience of lifewere
graduall triump y subdued . ; I began rep to feel , I was that which at the , outset I had only feigned to be . My daily occupations acquired some
interest ; both in and out of the house I perceived I was of use , and so " to And ok courage he was . happyMargaretat firstin the indescribable misery
, ; , of that dark , dark time , I could not bear to witness—though I had prayed that thus it miht be—how happyhow exceedingly happy !
excited He truly he love deli d her hted , he to g was cultivate proud her of her talents , and , , to of develop the admiration e her under she - ; g
standing towards ; him above He all in he dul exulted ged her in the even intense more affection than I had she done displayed ; he
. was never stern and peremptory as he had sometimes shown himself towards me but seemed to make it the study of his life to enter
; into all the ideas and feelings of the fair young bride who was ever on the watch to secure his approving smiW
" " Alas And Alice , aunt Alice ?" ! I did not fully solve the mystery till long my poor
years afterward , . Strange shadows used to flit across that bright youn she would g face steal , and offcen from her affcer husband a day passed in search apparentl of me y without and sitting a cloud at ,
, my could feet not , look trust up myself silentl to y notice with . a touching I would then mournful bend over expression her and I
kiss her forehead , and talk cheerfully of some improvement I was p used tone lanning always to raise in succeeded the her house head , in or and reassuring of smile some project kissing her , and for my affcer the hand ensuing a little as she year while kept . she My it
within hersand tell me how like , a happy dream it was to see me , so well again , with my dear old face , and dear old ways , once more .
She would run on so about the joy this gave her , that over-exciting herself at lastthe hand she still clasped was often wetted with her
tears . She was , no longer the gay thoughtless girl of a few months previous unspeakablsoftened and spiritualised in her words and
bearing , ; these manifestations y of tenderness towards me knew no abatement ; not even when her situation warranted a claim to the
exclusive attention she once arrogated as her due , did her care for variation my health , her And anxious then solicitude but you to alread see I y was know not sad the , rest undergo . Little any
. more than a twelvemonth had passed since the marriage , when
cry Harry was was heard born as , her and last his br young eath - mother passed- taken away here from , us Margaret . His , first on
404 Bight Or Wrong.
404 BIGHT OR WRONG .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/44/
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