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408 MANCHESTER AND SALEO11D EEFOEMATORY.
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LX.—MANCHESTER AND SALFORD REFORMATORY
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PijKASANTTiiT situated on rising ground ...
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tained his will , some injunctions relative to Harry , and a letter to mewritten a few days previous to his death , in which , as one standing *
, on the brink of the grave , he spoke unreservedly of the past . He told me that soon after Alice died , he found in her desk a letter , in
which , under the impression she would not survive her confinement , she disclosed the remorse that haunted her—thus she worded it , 1
poor , poor child!—for havingbeen the destroyer of my happiness . frenziedl She then y went revealed on to it tell on of the her day own which early preceded passion , my of her falling having 1 ill , so of
her misgiving's as to the wrong she had done , of her earnest desire , by a full confession , even at the cost of irreparably humbling herself
in his dear eyes , to repair it . She proffered as her last request , that , if the objections she well knew I entertained upon this subject could
be overcome , we should marry , and forgetting her grievous error , think only of her repentance and her love . But he dared not , the
letter continued , ever speak to me of rekindling , upon the ashes of my sister , the love sacrificed to her ; and therefore it was , that when
the surmises in circulation reached him likewise , judging by my earnestness that he should go abroad how deeply my soul revolted
from their import , he had obeyed my wishes without a murmur ; praying me now , for every harsh word or misconstruction , to include
him in the forgiveness his poor Alice had implored . " Right or Wrong ? Aunt Anne , let this record of your sufferings ,
your nobleness , your patience—your weakness too , may be—go forth . Amongst those who read it , amongst those who will blame and sneer
at you , some will do you justice . Earthly censure or praise are now alike to you ; it is for the encouragement of the weary and
desponding I have written the story of your life . The lesson it conveys to them , these few lines of Longfellow ' s express better than
any _commerL'tarjr I _coiild furnish . You were of those who still " Remind us make lives sublime
_^ And "We Footprints can departi on ng the our , leave sands behind of time us , ;
_" Footprints that perhaps another A { _Sniling . forlorn o ' er and life shi ' -wrecked lemn mai brother n , p
Seeing , shall take heart again . " , '
408 Manchester And Saleo11d Eefoematory.
408 MANCHESTER AND SALEO 11 D _EEFOEMATORY .
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LX . _—MANCHESTER AND SALFORD REFORMATORY FOR JUVENILE CRIMINALS .
Pijkasanttiit Situated On Rising Ground ...
_PijKASANTTiiT situated on rising ground overlooking the church and village of Blacldey , stands a plain rnodest looking building ,
conspicuous alike from its x ) osition and the tout ensemble of its red
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/46/
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