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her an Additional } pang Combined witkitv that I may ba > focgivetn I hurried towards the school-hottse , as the place most UkeLy to give me the tmlhi . The J *) o ^ woman ' s tears came fort when she saw- me ; and it wto tfome time ete * h ^ could fcett me all . She said that her young tnntres * hack gradually faded away ; no one knew how a * why : that « he featl * gone , tike ' one of the lilies * ofher garden ; * h * 4 her uaotbec had
b © lie * ed , from day ti& day * that she would recovery init her rapid wasting tolcUber the truth at last . She had never left her , but bad- her , like & ohH 9 / in het artos all the day ; and , like a child , she rested on Jbea bosom at "nrghV . She had coffered no pain ; but spoke and looked sweetly and cheerfully ; and when she could no longer speak , smiled her answers , She knew on the last day that . she was dying ; and then only , sorrow daifte As she looked at her mother ; but her mother would raise her eyes
to heaven , and press her to her heart ; and Ellen knew that her xaothei meant ; \ hafcihere they would meet again : and they were happy : and she died ; and her last words were , — ' Mother , come , come 1 ' 4 No one has seen her « ince ; and old Mary has been told not to let any one whatever into the house . She site very often in the young lady ' s room ; but it does her no good , for she comes out shaking from head , to foot * and as white as that walk '
The next day X wrote , entreating her to let me come to her . She replied very briefly , naming that day fortnight . I went in the early morning , that there might be no coincidence in time again , and made my way to the kind-hearted HchooUmistresa to gain all the help I could * There I learnt that the day after the burial of her child , Ellen had appearednt the fichool , —that she went through the routine pretty much as U 8 tia } y- <* - * hat no one spoke to her of her daughter , as old Mary had been totmd to all the people to beg them to say not a word about her ; that she- was more busy than ever , talked more quickly , walked very
fast , and kept up the whole day till evening , when she would go and sit upon the grave . At first it made her' take on sadly / but now it seemed to bee a sott of ' resting comfort' to her . ' Once only have I seen her give way , &ifya * ld tfcat was all my fault . I called out to & little girl who came mi * Bllen , ¦ how ' s your , mother ?" . A heart-breaking cry behind ine , a minute after , made me feel what I bad done ; and I bad to run to
prevent her ( torn falling . When she came to herself she saw I had been c * ywg , Atod she put up her face to kisB me , a thing she had never done mv he ^ life before ; out I knew why it was—to save me from thinking that I had given her any grief . Oh , eir ! i £ ever there was an enge 4 ppon *** th she is onev' It was with a heavy heart and < UngeriDg * U ? p I < tufne ) d down the lane that led to the home noWiao < iosoiate » I ^ toppe ^ at tHe gate a moment with an undefined fee l ipg * of dread , and the act recalled the time when I had first seen my firat and >< 6 t friend , of
the gu *^ d 4 dn my boyish days , tb * nimiatering spirit who seemed U > lifive 1 e 4- Irie ^ irfel y through a periloo « 4 ifey Lke an angeL with a toroli lighting * j ^ y p&ih- ^ -the Elien of the vtUmge gulden . What « . host of reeoUeCfticmi fUlAred upon me—th © boyish , thought , aowawbat selfish
then , but ^ novr tKTongW her lovely / teaching . wrought out into a higher and purer fejeistente * ' let ^ nie sbelp youy' came back upon me , and in another minute I was at the door . ' Tell your ntUtress * wha it i »» but tell ber I will come again if she would rather not see me to-day . l waited a little time , and was then shown into the room at which I had
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/58/
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