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30 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.
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awakened voice of iter heart , which made her for the time a- true woman
brother ce Wh . y in , Elise low , and you smiling look accents just like . " an Let angel God , " make whispered me happy her ,
and I will , be an angel / ' responded Elise . Her whole soul lay in these words . She offered the perfecting of her character as a
price Julius for the was happ desirous iness to which revisit she the demanded favourite ; haunts of his boyhood
on this beautiful March day . The whole family went with him , even his mother , although at first she time had fancied The the repair alke of d
his wardrobe would occupy her whole . parents w in front with Julius ; Elise and Falkenschwerdt followed . In such circumstances they felt themselves exalted above all the trammels
the of conventional memoriesthe life , dreams and exchanged the hopes , in g of lowing their , young animated lives language . They ,
spoke no wor , d of love , but , the glances which they interchanged , the touch of each other's handsspoke more distinctly than words ;
brother and when ' s , embrace in the morning and offered farewell , her , Elise hand released to Oscar herself he drew from her her
close " When to himself I return , imprinted , as conqueror a kiss , upon let this her hand forehead be the , , and prize whispered of my ,
in victory The hih . " young irits men rode for away the not & ht so quickl and rich y as in they hope had ; but come while , but eager g
by these a g new went sp source joyfull , of y into happ the iness world , left the , behind consciousness one of and them wei , of at an hed least irremediable them , enriched down
void with fell a heavy upon the feeling friends of desol they ation unfelt , before . g Almost for the first time since her childhood , Elise threw her arms _aroimd her mother
motherand laid her head upon her faithful breast , and the darken understood , the heaven it all , althoug which was h she ictured spoke in no her word daug ; hter she ' s would imagina not
tionalthough the clouds were p heavy and the mists gloomy which floated , before her own
. Whilst the world without became more and more excited by war and rumours of warthe life in the parsonage continued outwardly
quiet , but inwardly , , for Elise . rich in deep , powerful emotion . Letters from her brother , and newspaper to the retired intelligence , which cer to
her tainl the y found onl its element way but of life tardil . y The formation of parsonage the Lutzow , were corps , into which y both friends enteredits solemn inauguration in the
church of Rochauwereto Eliseevents , of the most intense interest , , , , Each and she of her perused brother the ' s let accounts ters contained of them a with greeting tears from and Oscar prayers and .
, sometimes a significant word ; it was certainly not easy to form plans for the future when the present was so stormy walks and unsettled .
directed Elise lived towards only the for the rock youn hei g ht heroes from ; whence her lonel the y view were extended ever y g ,
30 Constancy Misplaced.
30 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/30/
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