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394 THE BROTHEIt'S SACRIFICE.
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" Who Would Ever Have Supposed That Brit...
from At an the indul time gent of her landlord happy , m a arriage long lease , her of husband the cottage had in obtained which the
rent the brief and retain period the of th home eir wedded which he life had was provided spent . for To her pay , and ambition
of which Britta held ' s life so many ; but hard tender times associations came in when the , was field there the and great was Britta no fish had -on
the coastand no corn or potatoes , the often small to send , hours her p littl lying e boy her supperless knitting needles to bed , , while the produce she sat till of dinner
not which She keep worked was the all hard wolf she and from had long to the and depend door never on and murmured for his to gaunt -morro , but visag w ' s she e could as he .
k stared neeseemed upon her too , thr hideous eatening to look death ; upon to the and rosy live . cherub She had at her no
this relations season , , and besides her neig Britta hbours was had modest enough and troubles sensitive of their and own she
kin could d but not bear rude ; - to minded parade , nei her hbours poverty and before as the little eyes could , of the her ;
grateful woman venture to g tell sometim her sufferings to to her the and gay but
warm-hearted ladieswho came es see play with hot read little the Magn inner ie . , life Their of casual the widow visits Britta and hasty and glances her pride did
shrank from appearing to beg from the daughters , of a landlord , but kind ( for act the and his poor forb sympath of earing his tenan enoug Oh try ! h , ) , but which sadl , ladies is y deficient not you satisfied who in said that to speak such care
least hard things the timid of poor weary Britta y . spirit , since grop young you ing cannot in the , dark appreciate for a , hand pity , to at
lead , it , and turning to the first shelter offered though it be an ungenial one
blith James e Farquar . maiden had of been seventeen rejected but by his Britta devotion when seemed she was to a ;
have widowhood outlived young and the adversity intervening , his years suit was , for renewed now in with the days additional of her ardourAt first it seemed like sacrilege to dream of placing
another decision . in He Magnie was ' willing s vacant that seat time , but and Jam circumstances es did not hurry should her
advance . his claims . He would come and do odd jobs about the farmor send his sister to tend the little boy when Britta
in seemed the with mother , more a bit 's than of heart fresh usuall could cod y , tired feel or an nothing and oatni downcast eal but cak gratitude e . for He Magnie would for , such dro and p
did generous not like atten ; he tions was . passionate There were and some of easil thing y roused s about his , he sentiments James was fond she
of towards liquor her too , but that so she cautious seldom was thoug he ht declaring of asking herself what , t his
her real opinion of h , im was . He never asked her to accep
394 The Brotheit's Sacrifice.
394 THE BROTHEIt ' S _SACRIFICE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/34/
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