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THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE , 199
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
had been exhausted in the cruel struggle of her governess career ;
" Was Life ' s too long loud , joyous for her , jostling meek sh game ame , . ' *
God And bless so and my reward Mary left her me for ; her left patient me , oh kindness , how much her gentle alone I
our untiring little tenderness churchyard to — ' me on , the . and ri to ght our hand children going ! She up , the sleeps path in * ,
I hope I should to rest mention beside her an . incident that befel , when I had been anothernot
married about three years . One night I dreamed — and was fin my d Mary strange shining Margaret —lay ; . and I beside cried Her , as g out my me lance . in eyes The the was rose fi awe wild gure to arid and its rose anguish eyes troubled up , , white I of knew , my , sorrowful ethereal dream that it . - ,
strangel My wife y woke moved . me . . It was Tears Margaret were on , and my yet cheek it s was , and not I , was It
dream was like —for her it , and was yet terribl not y her real . Herbert The impression —lingered of powerfull my strong y -
, for At many the end days of . that time a black-edged letter reached me , with At the
hour Died an Italian in far which postm I in ark saw a . forei her It was in land my from dream but her her , mother Marg soul aret . in its had hour died very of .
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commune , with the one towards whom her love , perhaps , had yearned in that dark hour
. great One truth thing , and , however involves , _inasmuch a great problem as it contains , I must , here I think record , a
true of Desp my and dear ite hi her g wife h faith pure . , , meek she suffered , blameless at times life ; heavil nay , y in from spite reli even gious of
doubt convinced and but depression the conviction . No one failed could sometimes be more to absolutel ive her y g
comfort . ; Worn nervesand weak vitalismleft her a prey to a v that ague fai t th error , which and can a deep m , ove dejection mountains . Strange , is powerless , , but Faith true before , th that the at
can nerves welcom ; can e g martyrdom ive no comfort with when transport they , are that weak can . triumph , over death , and rob the grave of its victory Creator —that can link to lose the its creature ,
even while in timewith —seems superhuman power when , left to struggle against nervous instance suffering and .
then The most by a divine cause of which attributes is wholl is y foiled physical only . in The one weak bod , y is
stronger than the spirit .
The Record Of A Vanished Life , 199
THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE , 199
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/55/
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