. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXVni. HE WILL NOT SEPARATE US, WE HAVE EEEX SO HAPPY. To veer how vain ! on, onward strain,Brave barks ! in light, in darkness too ;Through winds and tides one compass guides,To that, and your own selves, be true. Cut, O blithe breeze ! and O great seas, Though neer that earliest parting pastOn your wide plain they join again, Together lead them home at last. One port, methought, alike they sought, One purpose hold whereer they bounding breeze, O rushing seas ! At last, at last unite them there ! —ClougJu E will n
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXVni. HE WILL NOT SEPARATE US, WE HAVE EEEX SO HAPPY. To veer how vain ! on, onward strain,Brave barks ! in light, in darkness too ;Through winds and tides one compass guides,To that, and your own selves, be true. Cut, O blithe breeze ! and O great seas, Though neer that earliest parting pastOn your wide plain they join again, Together lead them home at last. One port, methought, alike they sought, One purpose hold whereer they bounding breeze, O rushing seas ! At last, at last unite them there ! —ClougJu E will not separate us, we have been so happy —these were the last words of Charlotte Brontewhen, having become Mrs. Nicholls, and havinglived with her husband only nine months, deathcame to snatch the cup of domestic felicity fromthe lips of tlie happy pair. A low wandering delirium came. HE WILL NOT SEPARATE USP 261 on. Wakening for an instant from this stupor, she sav/ herhusbands woe-worn face, and caught the sound of somemurmured words of prayer that God would spare her. Oh !she whispered, I am not going to die, am I ? He will notseparate us, we have been so happy. Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, when a girl, loved her family so dearlythat she used to wish that when they had to die, two largewalls might press towards each other, and crush them all, thatthey might die all together, and be spared the misery of husbands and wives will sympathize with this wish, forthey must sometimes look forward with dread to the misery ofparting from each other. * To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,Makes up lifes tale to many a feeling heart! In all ages the anticipation and the reality of separation hasbeen the greatest and sometimes the only sorrow in the lot ofunited couples. Many very touching inscriptions have beenfound in the Catacombs at Rome, but none more tou
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