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THE PORTRAIT. 387
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. s ¦ 4 for f ever "banished from their light ! was the stifled cry of my heart as No I passed into there the ante and - alone room . than by a sudden transition a new
sooner , train sister of ideas Wh presented should themselve we all be s : — unhappy "I will ? go He and too speak suffers to , it him is
evident as a . . I will y be braveheroic—keep my secret , and teach him fortitude . He has duties , to perform ; his poor young wife must ake circumst
know n by othin unavailing g about all regret this misery " The : let words us not I had m heard took ances the
worse . and sting still from remembered my sorrow me , for ; they they told proved that that he also Cleveland was grieved had loved , and me in
consideration of his fateI endeavored to forget my own . I was free , and this I felt to be , a boon ; ht he not was to bound be tarnishe to another d b , such and
remembrances the h _^ p iness as of seemed that other yet to oug darken his path . I would try y and brighten it—And with these feelings I re-entered the drawing-room
hy another was close door beside . him before he was aware who had interrupted he it
his reverie . From the startled look with which regarded me , seemed To think as if a he part imag is ined so much I had more stepped undertaken easy out than of to the act canvas it did , that not . I almost
peculiarl wished I y had fitted not to carry thus out rashl . y readil The agitation to of aid one Cleveland . I was appear infectious , and words did not come y my but MrMart
"I am sorry Mrs . Martyn is not at home , I expect . yn will How be strangel here immediatel y those commonp y , " I stammered laces .. sounded out by , when way the of the a beg li to ps inning whom that .
uttered they were them addressed were blanched was scarcel with y conscious emotion I had of , and asked their import him person to ! be " seated Thank " he liedtaking a chair as if ,
you into "I am , it very leant rep fati back gue , d and , having shut had his a eyes long . walk I was ; " at and a loss he threw what himself next to
He , had walked , towards the window on hearing the door open say at my . entrance , and as the loung all ing the li chair ht there in which fell he had full on seated his
himself face . "" Pie stood looked by the as si he de said , of it , , weary and g exhausted was . " Can I order thing to refresh , ? " I asked in a gentle tone , feeling that
any lie Laconi needed kind as words he you . slowl " Nothing re -opened , thank his you eyes , " ; was then again rousin the g
iimself "Is c Cap , answer apparentl tain Hamilt y by on a strong in town y effort ? " I of tried will , to he remember abruptly if said I knew , — liedthat I
iny one of that name then in London ; but failing , I rep , " _jould "I not tell have . " mistaken the namebut I mean your husband—the
may , _gentleman sliment made to whom him lean you were forward so long whilst engaged an expression . " My look difficult of aston to - , afraid
leffrie o fear passed his mind over was his wandering face and — literall that he y made was confusin me g * persons . I began and
The Portrait. 387
THE PORTRAIT . 387
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/27/
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