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THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PLAISTOW. 179
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I. She Was But Nineteen; And Nineteen Do...
fattier , Horace Plaistow , should add nothing * by way of comment or cautionwhen she went Lip to himand put her arms round his
, , neck as he sat painting * , saying * in her loud clear voice—all her consonants labialand all her vowels open- — " Papa ! Tom Delane
asked me to marry , him _to-day , and I said I would . " No one who knew them would have wondered that the father's only answer
should be to lay down his palette , smooth his beard , pat her fLushed of face a few , and moments _tighten to the say belt " Very of his well blouse dear ; you then know , after best the .
pause Tom is a fine fellow , and , I believe , he will make , you , happy , but we shall miss you , my Aura . " And so to turn to his easel again ; his
troubled paternal . duty For _discharged never yet , did and a his loving conscience 1 father at desire rest to if his marry heart off was his
daughters ; and Horace Plaistow , careless artist as he was , was too passionate a lover of his family and his home , to wish to see it
broken When up all . was made known and clear hereat Merridno Vale
Tom wrote home to his mother , and told her , ver , y timidly and very , ectfullthat he -was engaged to Aura Plaistow , the artist ' s
dau resp ghter . y , He knew he might as well have said the mountebank's daughteror the pickpocket's , so far as Mrs . Delane ' s estimate of
comparative , respectability went . " I wonder how my mother will like it" said Tom to himself ,
sealing his letter with the Delane coat of , arms , as he always did not when have writing communicate home ; f d with , indeed that , if respectable he had not place done at so all , . he " need And
but how Aura will Mary will be and none Margaret the worse agree for with a little Aura of ? our Not home well disci , I think line . ; p
birds charming She onl , thinking y here "wants , still of that , nothing we to cannot make but be her p asleep ictures perfect under and , for the pleasure thoug trees h . like it M is y black wife very
must be more conventional and disciplined ; know how to manage her But to live household when in I this have , and way Aura be for able ever all to to , thoug keep myself h in , it -doors and is very under . I deli should my ghtful sole be for distracted influence a time . ,
she will be a very different creature . " of He his kept mother his or thoug his hts desi to him for self the , and taming said nothing and conversion about his of _feai his * gns
love could bride . and disapi And loving - > rove as , the of likeness what only , Tom home she never liked bondage , or imag that which ined he that Aura would Tom knew and car ' e s if of peop they was le did . Love meant happiness with Aura , constancy familwith amity hearts ;
she could not imagine a divided home , or a y mi pointing ht different lode and ways scatter . So her the innocent Delane theories mine , which to the some winds day ,
as After g yet slumbered exp a surly delay beneath of several her feet days , unseen about , at last and the the unknown answer . came at from all
Mrs . Delane . She said very little engagement , O 2 . VOL . II *
The Misdeeds Of Aura Plaistow. 179
THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PLAISTOW . 179
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/35/
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