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THE 3ROTHEB'S SA0E1FICE. 39®
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" Who Would Ever Have Supposed That Brit...
hurricaneand thus it was that Britta ' s horizon became overcast Magnie . _* was a fisherman las , and t to when return the from summer the haaf catme , he
fa was ir mo the rning first out in , J and une , the he left his home for his usual . voyage One eaward in search of a livelihood . Many of his
fellow-countrys returned men went some as well the , f ocean or the kep day t . clear and promising . Some
a Three cliffs , wear for y day si s ht of t he ghts sail poor she knew Britta s watched o wellbut on it the never cold
found gr cam y e , and and led back the g to four her th desolate day the home sym the pat wife hising of , h alf g a hbours year ;
wild the widow and deep at twenty for the _^ one bond . Her which grief united , as may her be to supposed Magnie , was was
earl no common childhoo one d , . hans They had lovers been in cousins youth and and their playmates affection in
had y so grown w , it h their lives , and been so openl , tt of kno wond wledged t
t every o the world y , and , tha an t it impossibili would have ty in been their a o ma wn eyes er if either er had
chanced uch I don a blow 't to thin marry as k th p any oor los one B s of tt else her a w . belo uld v ed er husband have bo rne s u if it under had
live not s been for th A at , few something months of after Magnie her bridegroom was left for ' s her dea to th , love a little and
bit boy ter was si . hs born were to all the that disconsolate ted the widow little . stranger Scalding at first tears , . and A gree
bab answer crushed y was to g and the laid bleeding firs on t cry his of mother heart the if orp sent ' ha held ar n m up boy , in and its ; their but wail his when wondrous large to the He blu aven hel e p eyes les in s
looked up to her face , as they depths orb a message fancied from resemblance the sea—when to those she whose saw in lig those ht had wan so d latel ering y
been and s devotion a quenched went by the out ocean in a great , all her gush woman of passion 's wealth to her of dead love
inwardl husband ' s res child olve , d and to rise thanking above God her for afflictions His precious and live g ift , for Bri the tta
y , sake Of of course u Magnie the ' s little boy . " one was named after his fatherand
peop became le . won No dered shadow to see of the what dark a stout events merry that had little heralded fellow , his he ; browHis mother
birthhad fallen on that bright young . ' s face and stopp seemed , ing as figure if it had bespoke forgotten a hard how strugg to le smile with , while poverty her and thin a her features dwelt
held breakin on the him g sunny heart so close face ; but of no no her wonder reflectio little son her n from . life No becam wonder pale e " Britta bound ' s up heart in .
the lad ' s . " ; 2
VOL . XIII . E
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THE 3 ROTHEB ' S SA 0 E 1 FICE . 39 ®
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/33/
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