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THE MISDEEDS OE AURA PILAISTOW. 181
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I. She Was But Nineteen; And Nineteen Do...
" You are not like tlie rest , tlien ! " laughed Mrs . Plaistow , _lifting one nip lier of tlie face loveliest from tlie faces contemp in creation lation , of even Frank now ' s , _shmilders mother as . she It was was
of " ei No ght " or nine lied children Tomli . htl" I represent the worldly element _repgy ,
among , us . I am the , frivolous one ; a kind of tame black sheep , sadlin want of solidity and reform . "
out " y her Oh , hand bah ! you " so need come nothing let us go of and the sort shoot ! " . cried Come Aura , Frank , holding y , you
have all those , bad marks , of yesterday to make up , and you shot so badlthenI am sure you must be getting short-sighted . Come
along " I , will who y " 'll said , be mark Frank er ?" in his drawling way , gathering up his y
that wandering fastened , limbs _hy one hooks by one and , , as eyes if . they " But were the so many little separate mother p must ieces
come too . " "Oh mammaof course ! We could not get on without
her ! Now yes , then _^ make , haste , the daylight will be all gone before , we And begin Aura , if you are off to not the quick archery . " groundTom rushing affcer her ,
mother while bi ' s g waist Frank ran y and followed his Anakite a trine stride more _leisiirel dwarfed , y , his to suit arm her round pace his . ht curls her
"While she , with looked the more fresh like wind the blowing elder her sister bri than g the mother across of merry eyes ,
her As son they . stood in the archery ground , with the whole tribe of
children they tossing made screaming of — large with and dark laug the hing huge eyes , wide about dog barking red them lips , — , floating such and the an hair assemblage birds and sing white ing as
life noisil of y beauty overhead arms , and , careless Tom , could good not temp hel er p , thinking of art , and that love after and buoyant all , this
health one than , of had gaiet been y and dealt freedom out to and him childlike at home pleasure . He , and was his a wiser had
known life of onl conventional y a life of , bondage suppressed and emotions social slavery and checked a life of affections dull flat ,
monotonous a routineof hard practicality and of , severe thought , a life which art had never , beautifiedand poetry had never idealised ,
was and out which of such made a of narrow gaiety existence a sin , and , as of this nature that he a had reprobation stepped . into It with
the enchanted circle of an artist ' s home , a home overflowing wonder beauty , like it purp then le wine ifin streaming the intoxication over a golden of such vase & . delicious Small
was , , lo novelty oked , the he lost his difference head and which heart education together and , and earl , like y training Aura , over had - grave
made between them . " Love conquers all things , " says the poet ¦ in common syntax sense ; but , assuredl over the y his measurement first conquests of distances are over and _x _^ revision the com and
parison of dissimilars *
The Misdeeds Oe Aura Pilaistow. 181
THE MISDEEDS OE AURA _PILAISTOW . 181
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/37/
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