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64 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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A. Life For A Life. By The Author Of " J...
mount done would door be this ' Th day y , sins the are onl forg y word iven He thee would , rise say up and unto walk me . ' after burden all I had of
" And I did , so . I went out of the and house an altered understood man . M something y of
wha years must t had have is meant been felt lifted who by being sa off t me at ' t born he for D ever ivine again f . ' eet ever I could . thed I diml and y guess their at wh ght at mind they , , d
or whoacross the sunny plains of Gralilee , leaped and walked anran , praising , Grod . "
The father is told of this calamity by his eldest daughter , Penelopewhose character we must remark in " passing is most ably
drawn Clergyman , and , thoug in whose h he fate he , the the reader old in his man ' s worthless , sympath whose hopes y is warml evinces , after y the enlisted thing -wont .
but of fathers a Christian , had been spirit treasured , and insists upon the " murderer son , , " as any he calls him , being delivered up to justice .
to " find _< My out daug what hter told church me this morning to the shedder , and I have of blood been ; try what ing she ever would since my says
teach this And you Book a father murdered ' crie to d say the him to the old ! murderer * man * , letting * of I his remember his son hand . M nothing y drop Harry heavil bu ! t the y words upon y son it , !
* _Whoso sheddeth , man ' s blood , by man shall his blood be shed' " It is Penelope not Theodora who pleads- with the incensed
parent . without " " ' A Have little agita you on tion any my . * own motive Why account do in you arguing , thoug do it , h Penelope thus the grea ? ' said t ? ' scanda t he , hurr l and lan iedl publicity d y , and But will not for
t n series he ot muc famil have h y affec ' been sake t Francis , safe for l H arr d y ' s d , sake we t , he when ll t soon all ty be his ears wickedness : E consider ng and . fa our ther mi ! - '
that " She old man stung father ' s him life was deeper y betrayed l cov than ereup she in one knew se groan . * , * which y * The burst whole from , history the very of
strained depth " ' Eli of , the them the priest not ' . s of sou Therefore the . Lord ; they his died spns in made one day themselves both of vii them e , and . It he was
re-, himself the " will The at of respectful last the , Lord pointing silenc . ' e to which the door ensued , ' Gro no , murderer one dared must or have to man break -slayer . promise He , or broke what it
ev er y ou th are that , you the must secret go you free have ; moreove kept so long r I , you will now your keep for ever , no . , ' y " " ¦ * ' Sir No , ' hesitation , I said , but , no he exp stopped lanation me fiercel ; I will y . have none , and give none . As choose' Better should
you unpunished said , your , than life that is mine I and , to mine do with should it be as disgraced I . . Obey me you . Promise go . ' " "I ' Now did . go I turned * ? * Put to half ob the earth Blind between obedience us seemed if you the can , onl only duty go . ' left me .
Again ey . y sibility I might and even indifference have quitted to all things the house , had with it not a been feeling for a of low total cry irrespon which I - heard was some as in sort a dream of fancy . So between did her you father and . Dora * Dora . Daug —I had hter forgotten bid him . farewell There ,
I and never " let Then him mean she go to said . ' bid ; my him love farewell said in , that her own is finall soft , y distinct , never voice as long , _< No as I , papa live . , '
64 Notices Of Books.
64 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/64/
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