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THE BBOTHEB'S SACBIFICE. 899
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" Who Would Ever Have Supposed That Brit...
He controlled himself at once , but still concealed his features as he replied , " Dear to leave mother , it but was very thoug ht htless of would me , I
know comfo , rt to wish _} and I am so miserable you , . " I thougGaspar " No one can take the lace of Magnie ' s boy '" said Britta
p' ,, "bu ause t what a lon makes g long my pause darling , for so of unhappy a sudden ? " the There cause was of al a l p , mind
Magnie " Then ' s suf wh fering are so flashed downcast acros ? " his mother ' s —¦
u I cannot- — y dare you not tell you !" u Magnie , have you no more confidence in me All ?"
tell " you It is is not that that I love , mot Inga her , the , but secret can never is not mine ope to . call her I can where the siht
wife ; and for that reason I would wish to go g of " her M coul precious d not come boy ! to kill ur father me as gave it is now his doing life providing . " - for
. y yo me of real , and pleasure I could s g ive t a my thwar life t for Magnie you— ? s y face ou whil shall . ? go he . " said A . ; . ¦ "• gleam
would " Could come you bac reall k t y spare ou c me ured for a t li ttle is love £ e . t 9 " she w . ou " I most likelbe married y and you would have me always with
you . " ¦ y . ... : . , . - ¦ ¦ | S : . . . . . . ; .., :, _,-, ; _:,,. ,., . _- _. _^ _V-. of Britta her darling smiled m with sadly an and unutterable stroked the tenderness pale face and of glossy touch lock . It s
necessary almost . cled broke it her was o her wn to heart i Magnie stress to ' s say pea sen " ce Go t h f im ; " mind cheer bu , t so f she ull she y saw forth bravel how for y
conea h deli is g firs ht t at Magnie ttle on ' s going fe ' s stirring away was hig very hway evident . James to F observing ! stormed arquar ' s
eye and s , sorrowed indeed h by e n turn ever s , but cea he led had his latel pleasure y found . Q a - _brother aspar solace for all
that woes Magnie one regretful went , even went out for on from thoug his parting his ht firs mother or t perilous with memory ' s his breast voyage following dearly far -loved from after hom , save e , without . those So ¦
. The h first for year Britta of . Magnie It is true ' s absence her other _ivvent son slowl was y and not sadl less y
dutiful enoug or affectionatebut he was , seldom indoors nowand she between missed the her manl and y her form unkind , and tender husband voice She that missed had stood too , , so the often ear
. breath that was to ever anoth read er y to and listen above to all the she comp missed laints the she true durst hear not t
e , which the sailor held came her as often the to dearest comfort object Britta it possessed in her loneliness _^ Letters and from so
him she bent return her to patient his island head home and . prayed But what that she did mi Gaspar ght live , now , to see his found another !
guide and protector was gone ? Why he Very
The Bbotheb's Sacbifice. 899
THE _BBOTHEB ' S SACBIFICE . 899
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/39/
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