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182 THE BECOBD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
ment affection her ; but tastes she and had not hith had erto been lived repressed in congenial —remained environ hair
a secret ; to herself—for powers want of the true sympathy near which alone such tender and timid natures venture to reveal themselves
full I graduall y and natural became ly . one Her and parents as day were bday not we companions travelled together for her .
y , y , interest and spoke which our thoug called hts forth and all fancies of poetry about or scenes romance of beauty that lies or
latent in , the heartwe each found that our holiday trip was the leasanter for leasant , companionshi . There was so little
pp p thoug [ Female ht society of love , had that been we were a deli quite ght of fr which ank and I had natural hitherto togeth onl er y ..
dreamedbut of which I had known nothing . Its charm came learned upon me to , now look , when yearning most ly open in the , to morning its influence for . her Graduall dark violet y I
with a dream eye dail and deli s , ch I g softl arm ht turned , y and flushed I to if dreamed a her thoug cheek to speak ht at ; arose my times it . eye , or She perhaps followed a fancy became flitted when her a li dail g across sitting ht y fi wan gure my at t _,,
-the window y , before . retiring to rest , and , watching , a Rhine raft darklcross the white moonliht on the still riverthat it might
be of such very y a pleasant creature to . have But such still g a I never life companion thought of , to , loving win the her love ; I
had been so long used to forego , that I never fancied that such a She prize Margaret in was Rhineland could still ' s far health be reserved from flushed , during strong for her her , me thoug with g . irlhood h her look , keen had of been delig very ht health in delicate all than she . -
saw a more she companions really had of . her She parents was an often only unwell child . Not _~ and able nearly to always make
lonel dreamed y , she long had and been much a . great , She reader was quite , and , unconscious had thought of and the
unknown poetic talents temperament were to never herself recognized . which Her parents she by those real had ly around possessed the strong her , ; and her decisive rem dormant ained will ;
clearly of limited what minds they wanted , which . saw They but had a no very sympath little y with way , anything but saw
but far they beyond in did th not eir their comprehend way ken , which . Th , was ey and were not Margaret fond quite of ' s her her hig , way her and . qualities kind But to in were her all ; _^
conflicts of the will , Margaret had to yield . Her refinement , no delicacy match , her for subtler her parents thoug ' hts blunt , and determination more complex . feelings Apart , from were
st always riority ph r ysical of n allied a delicacy tu intellect res which irresolution , , which that saw hei always g e , ht rendered of lessens mental fr her energy o range m unable one which her to very cope is of nearl supe vi with ew - , verything point y
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182 The Becobd Of A Vanished Life.
182 THE BECOBD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/38/
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