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196 THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PLAISTOW.
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I. She Was But Nineteen; And Nineteen Do...
dress , looking more lovely tlian ever in the wakening of her soul which pain and emotion had caused . ht he
was Tom going was to aghast faint , , lie but turned he rallied so pale just that in time Margaret , as much thoug in fear of his mother as from other cause . Handsome cowardly Tom I
he did not like the _conseqiience any , now that it met him face to face . " What is the meaning of thisyoung lady ? " asked Mrs . Delane ,
, slowly drawing on her odious black mittens . . . " I am going home , " said Aura , curtly . wh ? when ?
used Tom " " Going Going to is changed do ! now " because cried , because and the I sees am sisters I me suffocated know , with " that quite y and none different miserable of you " like eyes , and me , to want ; what because to he be
; with my mother again . " And Aura began to cry , for she was thoroug " Aura hly worn are out . surelhasty" hesitated Tomgoing round to
where she , stood you , sobbing y like a child , , and wiping her , eyes with her fingers " Quite . the contrary" said Mrs . _Delane" it is a very sensible
decision , young lady , and , the only sensible thing , I have known you to do . "
" Very , " echoed Mary . But Margaret , half crying , -went up to herand kissed her of her own accordwhispering " You are too
, , , bri Tom ght for was us dreadfull , dear Aura y cut , we up should . Pie soon was have sitting killed down you now among , leaning us . "
his face on the back of the chair , and weeping very bitterly . But had Aura shewn , thoug so h little pitiful dignit , was or resolute manhood . He so had little behaved self-respect so ill even to her in , his he
cowardly desertion of her y from the , first day of their visit , until nowthat she was cured of all her former love for him . She still
loved , him in the past , as a remembrance and a ruined hope ; but she had no desire to see him an hour longerif he was to remain as
he had been of lafce . It was the first death , Aura had known , and she was shocked and pained in proportion to her inexperience .
But she was too healthy and entire to sit crooning by the grave . Life and joy and duties owned Aura , not sentimental moaning , or that
weakness of regret which seeks to reanimate the dead . So she drove off from the Hollies alone , " and there was an end of her , "
as Mrs . Delane said , with awful jocularity . Tom was consoled after a time , but not speedily . However , he
did at last marry a model wife , chosen for him by his mother , who fell into her exact place in the narrow mosaic-work of the Hollies ,
and gave no one a moment ' s uneasiness by exuberance of animal irits or imprudence of enthusiasm . And Tom lived notoriously
the sp handsomest and most hen-pecked husband of the district . But he was respected by societyand in time became a magistrate and
, sheriff for the county .
Little _Georg-e Grace went to Merridno _, but he never caine back
196 The Misdeeds Of Aura Plaistow.
196 THE MISDEEDS OF AURA _PLAISTOW .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/52/
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