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190 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
come an sigh eyesore t to of church their to flaunting me ,, In even this yellow when famil the carriage live famil d Miss and y were Ashley yell good ow as liveries enoug w h to re
She was wan and . carewornseemed y ill and sorrowful governess and had . a timid , constrained manner , . She seemed as if , under , happier
- and circums bearin tances tle g and were , she kindl exceeding would . have Good ly lad been old ylike ver Mrs , y . pretty To wnsend . al Her ways loved manners seemed the
poor , gen governess much , y pitied her more . She constantly inthe vited greatest Miss Ashl tenderness ey to Laburnum and commiseration Cottage , and spoke I met her ' Miss with
. and Ashley I so pretty reserved frequen and t silent ly , but tha she t we was never so ret becam iring and e modes inti t - , very
more mate . so I as was Mr however . Lawrence strong spoke , ly of prepossessed her in term s of the favour greatest , the t and approbation
respec During the two year . s which preceded my marriage—how l Mrs ittle . Townsend did I ever were think tha onl t I should intimates marr . y Pai !—Mr nting . Lawrence " versin and "
my y , g , tions the microscope . In so _quiet , and a life visi the ts st the of vill a day age , is were the my history occupa of a -
year , and you know enoug , h , H ory erbert , to piece out in your thoughts my still and uneventful existence during the first
years of my retreat . ] _STeed I tell you that I often _thoug'ht of Margare Mbrother t ? had been married for some . He married a
widow y , older than himself , but very rich . years She was the relict of a scheming great mercantile woman firm George ; a har seemed d and contented worldly , bu with t pruden his choice t and .
. so They altered lived w in good he , or sty rather le , and so hi developed s name rose , that on ' I Change could . hardl But y
our b lived eliev first and e tha strugg sorrowed t he had ling in ever the been poor of the old hanhood y lod oung ging brother . in I which looked with we whom at passed him I
wistfully , on the rare years occasions orp on which I saw him , to see if he remembered . Once I asked him . His brow darkenedthe
hardbusiness expression stonied over his faceand he said ; he had sentimental , no time nonsense to waste . upon childish recollections , , or any such
handsome He then littl turned e fellow and p Herbert layed with thoug you h ;— th you ohtful were — a and bright ,
, , ugmy business brother said and his have little man and should nice houses be a great and , carr rich ia man esand of
_Tbe able to , buy up poor money devils , who couldn't , make their g way , in my the unbusinesslike world . You must character have and heard povert sad y accounts , Herbert of , for me you , and used of
to call me , pityingly , " poor uncle ; _" and you once , I remember ,
190 The Record Of A Vanished Life.
190 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/46/
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