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    28 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.

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    . . Wildl It Were Was Y Past Along A ; G...

    began Elise ! thus the time : " Now of Germ must you ' s disgrace learn why has we come are to here an end . . Father Read !

    there the words of a king any ! " and with a raised voice he read the proclamation of the King of Prussia to his people . Elise hung on

    his words with beaming countenance . _" And now , father , " concluded Julius , " the hour is come when the only call that can be

    Falkenschwerdt listened to beg to for , is your to , I the paternal enter strugg a volunteer le benediction for the corp Fatherland . s With which my . is I forming friend am here Count itself now

    with the consent of the king . May God bless our arms ! God must bless The them mother , for fo the lded cause her hands is holy in ! " terror ; pale as deathshe gazed

    with streaming eyes upon her darling , the son of her , heart , who had thus turned aside from the plain beaten path of a citizen ' s

    calling , and chosen a life beset with danger . Already her heart struggled with the agony of the last farewell brother . Elise and did the not weep ,

    she did not trembleshe looked at her stranger with caution glancing came from eyes her , , as li consecr no ated thoug to ht the of fear Fath was erland in ; her no mind word , of it

    must at last be had , an she intoxicating entered upon ps feeling , the of worl happ d of iness the came great over and her heroic ; now , of

    which she had hitherto only dreamed . " that " You , as forget my son , Julius , you , " are said the the subject father , of after a prince a . long , who meditation is still lied in ,

    alliance with Napoleon . " " That has not been overlooked , " rep Julius . " My uncle , who favours my resolution , has formally adopted mebwhich means I have become the subject of another State .

    Before , y long it will be the pride of every one of our princes to call his subjects German sons and German warriorsand not tyrant's

    , slaves . In the meantime , however , my intention must be kept secret here ; only I would not go into the field without your

    to blessing " combat And . " I , " with began the the hesitation stranger , who of a had far hitherto too tender been silent and , far " have too

    cautious father . My mother is dead , and my father does not yet believe in the strength and success of our great undertaking .

    in Onl this y under strife . an M assumed y true name name must is it remain possible in a secret for h me even His to from take you part met ,

    until those your of Elise son and ; she I return needed together no name to triump acquaint . " her with eyes one whose deepest soul she instinctively recognised .

    The spirited young man had not much difficulty in obtaining the consent of the father , who was himself a man of true German

    inward feeling , development and who also when perceived the exercise that his of son parental had reached authority a point might of

    break the willbut , at the same time destroy the whole life . The ,

    no mother ambition gave to her play consent the part with of a heavy a Spartan heart mother ; she , . _jDoor The woman war mi , had ght

    28 Constancy Misplaced.

    28 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/28/