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    252 KETKIBTJTION.

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    ^ "I Have Done A Very Good Morning's Wor...

    evening to " , lie dear down , all and to ourselves Charles suddenl . Margaret resolved has to a headache start for Dublin and Is y

    upon gone that law business ; Stephen is so anxious he should settle , and Step He hen had is gone baffle w d ith nie him after . " all ! and there was nothing to be done

    but to sit down and cry for poor Mildred , and to look back upon tlie , bitter scenes of the last winter , which all this misery recalled so

    vividly to me . manner They did that no the t come week back had for been a week well spent ; and b I saw Stephen by C harles tha ' t s

    anything I could say now would be too late . y Once I did , speak to Stephen . I told him he had done a cruel and wrong thing , and

    that he _zvould live to repent it . He merely said , " You give me more credit than thanh I deserve f , Susan t ,

    but I think I shall more likely live to hear Charles me or wha I have done . " A day came when we both remembered our hecies . Stephen

    prop t left hroug us ; t and he w Mrs inter . Mahon that we , who were was occup not ied very a good strong deal , was with so ailing her .

    Charles wandered about , weary and dispirited , more indolent I think than tion ever , just He because seemed to of those ive few previous attempt months at looking of comparative after his

    es exer tate : . worse even than g when up I first any came down to Mahon Court , for he used then to say , " I will see about it , " if his bailiff asked

    w it him as was a changed q ues kind tion of in ; t acknow and o" thou As led g gment h he think very that seldom best he oug Grant did ht " . to see do 1 abou am so . t quit it Now , " e , in till it

    different . If Mr . , Stephen you left no particular , directions , you can . do as I you cou like ld no . " t interfereof course . And besides T was much very

    with Mrs . Mahon . I don , 't know what any of us three would have done wrote always without letters busy , Margaret and thoug she h fed what . her She birds about was and always I reall layed y cheerful never with Step and could hen content t ' ell s terrier . , and She ,

    which was left , in her charge ; and did p little bits of embroidery , and interest sang . Generall in anything y dreamin except g in Margaret reading , ' s Charles singin showed and I very was quite little

    they glad used of something to practise which a good excited deal or together roused him and . then g , He astonish sang too us , and by

    , their Step performances hen , wrote regularl in the y evenings , but short . hurried notes . We knew

    from _draining other every sources nerve how , devoting hard he every was moment working and . every I believe thoug he ht was to

    to his When L profession ancashir spring e . but was "Wh with y graduall , — a perhaps promise y chang I to alone return ing guessed into again summer . some , time I went or other home .

    Meanwhile I kept , up a constant correspondence with Margaret and

    Mrs . Mahon . They neither of them were very good letter-writers ;

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/36/