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THE BECOKD OF A VANISHEI) LIFE. 197
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
_girl , venture to bed d Miss into Ashley the littl was e room sitting in which solitary , the and children had dared having to ?
. insult gone her with , drunken addresses * Miss Ashley , begged him to leave herappealed to his manhoodand painted her
unfriendeddependent ; position . All in vain , ; he persisted the more in , his insulting suit . Mrs . Bullpound heard voicesand
came suddenly into the room , which the merchant as suddenl , y quitted . Mrs . B . assumed directly , and expressed , in her
coars " leading e way Mr , a . conviction Clowten on that " and the was gentle a consenting , timid g party irl had . Stung been
, pendent _beyond all had power at length of further defended enduran her slandered ce , the womanhood unfortunate , and
deinvei Bullpound ghed ' bitterl s conduct y against . This the led cruelty to a stream and inj of ustice _drawingroom of Mrs .
_charges Billingsgate . Then , of followed cruel aspersions an instant , and and angry the dismissal most insulting , and a
threat of refusal to give " a character" to such a shameless , worthless " darkened , ab respectable andoned doors creature . " Half , who mad oug with ht pain never arid to shame have
poor in a go tremblin verness g rushed heat of fro hopeless m the misery house , and and indi was gn fl ation ying , dis the - ,
tractedly anywhere , anywhere , out of the world , when , fortunatel Mrs y . , Towrtsend I had met interrup her . ted her recital as Miss Ashley entered
the room . It was touching to note how in difficult construction she found of her it to character believe
in or kindliness conduct . , She in sympath had been y , so just long used to harsh repulse , to the incessant of submittingto and supporting the outrages
inflicted by bad worry tempers , vulgar ; minds , and cold hearts , that , like a tive who sees none but a brutal jailershe trembled
at the cap approach of a footstep or the sound of a , voice . Like a terrified reel hunted on an until way imal of it , which drops doing , , in she something the th desperation ought to onl seek y of in forthwith terror a dim , is , read hurried a , nother y to ,
situation . She could not think clearly ; she could not rest quiet aid her to think In her , she great said dread ; and and she painful besought anxiety us to she counsel could and not
. oppressiv rest- —could e dread scarcel by y sit a haggard still in the panic room which . Goaded blunted by the a vague dulled ,
, , reason I almost and feared urged for her her ever reason onward . It , was somewhere certain — that somewhere the brain
and was b strained the excitemen by the long t of endurance her recent of trial corroding . It , was silent wi sorrow th the ,
y surest greatest all difficulty as the best we hel could per and calm comforter or reassure I went her and . broug As our ht 1
Mr . Lawrence y , . He was clear and energetic , , as well as tender
The Becokd Of A Vanishei) Life. 197
THE BECOKD OF A _VANISHEI _) LIFE . 197
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/53/
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