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    254 RETRIBUTION.

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

    father could have told me , and I never dared allude to it to him . I could not pity her now . I could hardly grieve for her . No , it was

    with the old reverence and love , and not with any tinge of compassion for her , that I now mourned u poor Mildred . "

    I went to Malion Court for the wedding . Outwardly how brig-lit it all seemed . Mrs . Mahon told me that

    of cour . so Mr . O'Connor would perform the ceremony . She did not understand my look of pain and surprise ; people so soon forget what

    it _iw disagreeable to remember . Sho only went on to say that certainly it was very soon after losing poor dear Mildred , but that he

    "would naturally have been grieved if any one else had been asked to take his placeafter his long connection with and affection for

    , " the boys . " Margaret ' s uncle was laid up with the gout ; and here was another subject for congratulation , for thus Stephen became her

    nearest relative present , and it was liis place therefore to give away the bride .

    Oh ! that wedding ! Stephen only came down the night before ; a _eliado colder , a little sterner than beforebut no one noticed it .

    Ho 7 niht almost have deceived moif it had , not been for one look at tho g List . ,

    While Margaret was changing her dress , and Stephen and I stood silently by tho window , Mrs . Mahon came up , and with tears of

    delight begun to ask mo if there ever was a more lovely or elegant hrido than Margaret ; and , nodding significantly towards Stephen ,

    added , " It is all Stephen ' s doing , Susan . Charles owes it all to him . No ono but Margaret ever was worth Charles after all ; and what a

    handsome couple they make ! " I mot Stoph . cu \ _s eyes then , and the look of despair and remorse

    that lightened across his face , and showed the depths of agony his pride and reserve had coveredmade my heart stand still with sorrow

    , and pity for him . Well , Mary , that is all . Stephen , who had loved his home so

    much , could novor return to it , but at a sore cost to himself ; and never < u \ l , save for a fow days at a time .

    Hut it all sank to ruin soon ; for after Mrs . Mahon ' s death , who only livod a _yearMargaret fancied Ireland did not agree with her ,

    , ami they went l ; o live , alternately in London or Paris . She fell gradually into fine-lady habits , frittered away her time between fancying *

    herself a groat invalid , and going to parties , where Charles _accompanies I her ; without any active pleasure in it , as she had , I think ,

    but uioro because it passed _arvvay his time . Mo did not lose his tasto for literature or art , however ; but it

    never produced anything' except a rare collection of curious editions _atul old . miniatures , on which ho spent in ore than he could afford . —

    more than ho ought to have aitbrded , for _Mohou Court was forgotten except as a place to send to for move money . How procured , lie

    never thought ; how his people fared under his bailiff lie never cared

    to consider .

    254 Retribution.

    254 RETRIBUTION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/38/