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" Who Would Ever Have Supposed That Brit...
- h couch our , . apd He still had that wakened pair of to _^ life silent _rhiit watch ; tp fall ers into sat by a deep _jGaspaxts and his became
easier t troubled old of , and ret sleep urning abou . t As hea noon lth the _^ he and day op sense ened advanced . his His eyes , glance with breathing fell a smile first on which his
fatherwho smiled back to him and said , _"Yoxl are better , jewel Without , , are you returning not ? welcome this affectionate home . " greeting , Graspar turned the idwith
to his mother . " Can you forgive me , moher ? " sa , brimming eyes . lifted flesh
_< " 1 know your hand was never against your own and _4 blood Oh I you , Gra j spar udge . " rightly , mother , -for if I could I would have
given _" Don wall my ' t hear life exci for t all e yoursel his that , as another f he did , boy time for , me " " roug . " hly interposed James ,
now " we _" -No that ., fat he her , is I interested must no moi speak % e _ , y affection ou now shall , and . for you acknowled must listen ge Magnie too , Oh for ' s I :
generous Magnie , Magnie and dis , you said truly that I should me , never your son know . how much loved me ; but oh ! my brothernone ever loved as
you " have Well you done well !" if you are going to tell melanchol , y stories , I
w from close ill " No go by the , away you , dead , must " G , . " lied stay James gentl James , father seated . taking , I will himself ha his ve mother y doggedl ou hear ' s hand y the on message between a chair .
his _char Qoble ged youth , , him repea . had t ed Then par preferred t had he , , with a hel rewel y simp to l w see ords le his pa wi thos to t brother h , the which he boat told saved Magnie how how before had t he he
_himself severed ; how ith his he st ped hand Gaspar the last link tha ; t bound lim to , life ; how he had rong smiled in , the midst f of death ; t and ,
ibove allhow he had sacrificed his passion or Inga Gerson , l ) vhen f is brotherl dream his , affecting s y of love a . pleas " tale Has an was t he future died ended , in his . vain very " Shall , father life we itself ? not " asked , in on word the Gaspar altar and ,
leed J fulfil ' hard his solemn nature- — parting or rath words er the ?" crust of vice in which he ames
lad enclosed his heart—was broken at last , and choking jmotions prevented his replying . There wer her e no dry in eyes now ,
or Britta had at last been moved to show grief a more latural " Dear way mother , and was " sobbed weeping Gaspar abundantl , "I y . can never be to you
_ihak _> oor ¦ '¦ _" And Magnie _-he was I" ; ' s said but dying , , so James request help suddenl me . '' y , rising I will , do will my , best please to obey the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/45/
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