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    406 MR. PRANKLAND'S MARRIAGE.

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    I^» I——I Have Passed My Life As A Dressm...

    fessed come" , an but d " liad our you excellent heard Ms prospects wife talk " you of would se the addition have rated to our it at in a -

    , hundred pounds or so . However , she was an excellent manager , and every week since her marriage , besides a trine for charity , had

    laid by what now amounted to a nice little sum for the new expenses . of Onl a y saving those who like have this had Mrs a narrow . Franklan income d expected can estimate her confinement the comfort

    . about Christmas , so I went to her in November to lend a hand to the work . Our materials being poor , in spite of Susan's stripping off

    genuity every bit to of ive lace beaut she possessed to our work , we had hy dint plenty of scallop of scope ing for stitching our in- ,

    and satin stit g ching , and y very proud were we of our creations , . I promised to keep house while Susan was to be ill , she had such

    confidence in my " making George comfortable , " and I was to be god-motherMr . Frankland had _thought it proper , in case the

    . child should be a girl , to request Mrs . Dashwood to be the other godmother . The tone of the refusal , more than the refusal itself , wounded

    Mrs . Frankland for her husband ' s sake . _" George was Mr . Dashwood ' s own nephew , full as well-born , and had behaved to him

    better than his own sons . " Then , for the first time , she told me that Mrs . Dashwood had never been to see her , and even her dear

    little pupils had never been allowed to come . "I would not have done them any harm" said she ; " surely I am not more vulgar now ,

    , tlian when with them all day . " When our work was over , I had an engagement before Christmas

    at a village some eight miles off , where lived two families of my patrons . I was to be a fortnight away . The young ladies of the

    two families were to go to their first ball , and much afraid were they I should never finish in time . All my work , however , was completed ,

    to the last stitch , before even the eventful evening arrived , and , having no more to doI sat down to rest myselfand took up the

    paper with the curiosit , y one always has when from , home . I turned to the births , deaths , and marriages ; not a name I knew . Stop ,

    there are a few more deaths over tlie page—what is this ?—ivho is dead in Lamb Street ? " On Sundaythe 2 7 th instantat her

    resi-, , Esq dence " , Lamb This must Street be , Susan some , mistake the beloved ; sick wife and of trembling George Frankland 1 I re-read ,

    . the sentence : " Susan , tlie beloved wife "—those vain , fond words to spell out to the world how dear , how very dear the being that is

    lost ! But , oh it was not ony Susan , my kind , healthy , happy Susan . Noit must be some one weary and sick of the world that Death had

    taken , to his cold bed , not the sunny Susan who had kissed me so warmly a fortnight ago . And this news was a week old . But

    there it was , " Susan , the beloved , wife of George Frankland , Esq . " No She But , never was what dead any was ! more Susan , loss that was to kep dead the t rin husband ! g I ing sh o ' in uld s ? my never What ears see . would her any become more of ! my

    Mm ? A lonely , despised man from his birth , a Spring had suddenly

    406 Mr. Prankland's Marriage.

    406 MR . _PRANKLAND _' S MARRIAGE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/46/