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RIGHT OR WRONG. 405
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this heart , which , lias pillowed so many loved ones in its turn ; her hand locked in mine , her eyes fixed upon her husband .
_# ¦ % ¦ _•& _ss- _# deep " For affliction nearly I two had years realised afterward the sanctit he remained y of our 'with tie . me B . efore In our she
. d disci ied , p even line myself when rejoicing , but now " ' w in ere returning all buried thoug * in hts tranquillity her , save the , . I love neede a d sister still to ' s heart miht freelavow grave
"With g him it y seemed , the same : the indescribable manner in took which counsel a sense together of my inferiority we talked was of her imp we lied watched had disapp over e her ared child ; we ,
, , kindl mon sorr y , trusting ow and ly , unitedl ommon y , — char drawn ge , — together with no reference by the bond to days of a which
commany Some persons rumours fancied of the wer kind e not became yet sufficientl known to y me remote at length to be forgotten invading .
, hovered the sanctit ; y they of the sounded home over like which a desecration the spirit to of my the ears earl ; y I dead shrank yet
from their reaching Eustace . vice " Many even of before his friends this I had too alread advocated y pressed this course his return fearin to active it was ser on - , g
; this my account step more he seriousl continue y d . secluded He had been and unemp listless loyed about . it Now at first I urged , but
when energy he , and perceived was soon I appointed recommended to before a reg it iment sincerel he went in y , the he Ionian showed and islands told more .
that " He in four placed or H & arry ve years in my , if arm his s life was spared " , away he would , return me , but never to take him from me . ' Your heart is bound up in that
but boy , Anne due , and / whatever Thenfor the affection first time he may since show he you had in become return my , is
brother your , he pressed his , lips upon my brow , and telling me to pray for " him I was , blessed desolate me and but went I knew his way it . was for his good . His letters
soon becam very e an unfailing , source of comfort , from their tone of cheerful resignationof manly faith and endeavor . I saw that in
, from a sphere his of soul acti , and vity I and rejoiced usefulness more and the more darkness that was I counselled passing away him
as I did . Years passed on . He rose in his profession , he began lig to ht speak his of son his ' s education return , of would settling afford leasant down him at hours Les . I Ormeaux in , too , antici , of pated the to de a -
bri self ght our sun reunion -set ; , and and spent the pride many with p which I should picturing show him my his - , noble boy : but on earth that meeting was never to take place .
"A few lines from one of his officers , to say he had sunk under a lingering feverrespected and beloved by the regiment he
commanded ; a sealed , packet in his hand-writing directed to me ; his books and papers transmittedaccording to his instructions , to his
, son ; that was all I ever learned of his last moments , those were
the only memorials of him that ever reached us . The packet con-
Right Or Wrong. 405
RIGHT OR WRONG . 405
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/45/
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