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196 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
morning h sleep er r oom " , , exhaus stated ietly . ted , that Marth with " Miss a grief spoke Ashl and of ey her excitement had in fall a pit en ying , asleep d and -, t pa wa _tronising towards s them ttle *
household tone , and _ev who ident require ly regar d ded the her tending as' a chi " and ld adde watching o of more
, re experienced ti M ring iss A to shley rest persons , the , . causes as Mrs . Townsend her abrup lowed t tol dismissal d wi me th , re from lated , Croesus before and
me quivered . Lodge the . story Good with warm of old the Mrs womanl . long Townsend , y meek indigna g suffering tion , as , of she sympath the repeated hopeless y to tin the t of
wretchedness of the poor girl during her rials pos go imperfec I could verness , from t in narrative the my wealth own and experience y could and bru fe , t el supp how famil ly a keenl y commen at y C ! roesus the tary wearing L to the ge . "
broug sorrow ht of res resfreshmen tless ni , gh t ts and distressful s wh , tion ich w unmerited days oke , — trembling nights which ly laint , to
words an and un tici just the pat life ion reproaches of depression insul . t I , degrada could and understand perp , etual care , without ; of comp joy many less _,,
aimless s F t rained I , endurance and lived w t hroug , with by h the the jarred same same nerves dull life- round corroding and wretched overworn of " torture routin clerk , brain ; e is was to of .
a changeless man wha wrong t the life and of and woe an . unh The appy life governess Townsend of a is proceeded to a woman the .
memory I had known of my i own t all , form th a s s resolved ff Mrs erings . welled firml up keenl than y befo wi , thin
meand I resolvedor raer more y re , wh not i , to abandon in her ca t s e , poor ld girl soon ; no t v to let term her ina return ted her to a oung strugg but le
Miss weary Ashley , life . Mrs to the . Townsend , uttermost was , and also nt we determined until agreed that could to she assist should what poor
remain was best to be done w for as f her or t . he We pres resolved e , meantime to we consult to our do see friend all _^
the could Hev to . soothe Mr . Lawrence and comfort , and the in poor the girl . Again I thanked we
Heaven for own rescueand with the feeling of a grateful slave who has my succeeded in , effecting other his escape itive from bondage ,
I ) ncident f f After el the t it _Bull a which p sacred icture poun had du ds of , t Miss y led Mrs to to assist Ashley . Townsend her any ' sudden s gener narrated a fli l fug position ht . It the . in was the particular an famil old y y g
) rom ld story the . manufacturing It , appeared that town a of l young times Vircaster merchant , who , a was Mr Miss . on Clowten Ashley a visit >
it lushed _rith Crcesu his with coars s Lod wine e gallantries ge , bethinking had severa , and him had , of one the persecuted evening pretty , and _pi'obabl defenceless y when
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196 The Record Of A Vanished Life.
196 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/52/
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