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    32 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.

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

    nourishment . It was her pride that her grief was too deep for any to fathomShe disdained to take part in the lamentations of

    one . distant her parents allusion ; even to her from own her peculiar mother and she bitter could portion not "bear in the the sorrow most from others

    of and all burie . A d queen herself of grief in the , she dep withdrew ths of her herself affliction proudl . She y sought out ,

    walked all the with places him wher and e , on consecrated that one spring in particular day of , her the life quietest , she spot had

    the in the lock garden of hair to , and his memory some fiery ; h verses ere , , together , the onl with y mem the orials miniature which ,

    Julius had sent , to her from time to timeshe could sit the whole day long without tears , without complaints _^ , happy only when no

    one disturbed her . Her parents were forced to give up all attempts head to comfort but her still .

    mother faithfull When the y industrious as father ever , , pursued as certainl hitherto y the with cared duties a for bent of her - his down household calling ; , , when althoug the h

    had in a not still , penetrated quieter spirit very , Elise far into considered , their souls it all ; and as a pro when of that her mother sorrow

    embraced herand asked her , weeping , " Must we , then , be deprived of both , our children by one blow ? " she had no other comfort answer

    hope to give , except than " the Both conviction , poor to mother that , she both the must . laurel " She soon had die , no to and her that belove , she no d

    h mi eroes ght be which allowed here above she had present twined for them in crown vain . She revelled in her , sorrowin the certainty that it must rob her before long of

    her lifeBut , she lived on ; her face was pale , but her cheeks remained , round . Her strength did not give way , she found that

    death from a broken heart is not an event of frequent occurrence . great In this events manner of years the time went frantic , on which ; she followed listened of the each as wing in other a of dream the in German stormy to the

    successionand to the beatings her eagle mother , till , it sank removed down with with Elise enfeebled into flight , . a Her small father neighbouring died , and

    town . It was matter of no little astonishment when the news spread who had

    itself that Elise was the betrothed of a young clergyman , formerly faithful been friend a nei to ghbour her widowed of her parents mother , and . Elise had proved herself himself could

    a scarcel at after y a understand long and severe the reasons strugg for le of . this her She mother decision looked , and which upon yet herself she to tell arrived as the a

    her truth sacrifice . , She hitherto offered had now her up been mother to the acquainted ' wishes s wishes with had Stern had but for , some little time influence , ; she with had not them

    she His guessed had simp his never le , wishes earnest entertained , long manl ago y the c , onduct althoug thoug had ht h he that secured had it was her expressed possible esteem , thoug for her h .

    to marry .

    32 Constancy Misplaced.

    32 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/32/