. Harper's weekly. isease >honld snatch from met hi- wan. r yet pined in miser-fered the agonies ofpossessor of a secrethopes and joys and de-pair lielore this spcechlc- had robbed me of all tlof life. ceaseless watching, when I had grown old and worn-down into a passive and sullen endurance of mycondition, there awoke within ino one Eastertide arestless and vehement desire to revisit my native town, where I had left no trace of myself, except avague minor that I was soon going to join mybrother in America. I asked leave of my musterto take holiday from the eve of Good Friday untilEaster Mo
. Harper's weekly. isease >honld snatch from met hi- wan. r yet pined in miser-fered the agonies ofpossessor of a secrethopes and joys and de-pair lielore this spcechlc- had robbed me of all tlof life. ceaseless watching, when I had grown old and worn-down into a passive and sullen endurance of mycondition, there awoke within ino one Eastertide arestless and vehement desire to revisit my native town, where I had left no trace of myself, except avague minor that I was soon going to join mybrother in America. I asked leave of my musterto take holiday from the eve of Good Friday untilEaster Monday, and started forth a gray, nerveless,fearful woman, from the tomblike stillness of thesolitary house into the noise and bustle of the ; )nce more, with shaking heart. I trod the dolorousway along which I had led Willie quailing beneaththe eves and whispers of our band of witnesses; andiod be:t,andwatched Willie and? with many backward glances and gesture, olT should rind it .iii|it\and deserted like. y oars. As soon as the twinning .-nigerl I tupped light I v at the door. There wasc clicking of a sth I. upon the quarried Moor tered words of delight a little while, changed since the time when as a child ] ,_on busy days at home, to be out of myway, and had played at keeping the old alms-woman to leave the work nme wait upon her—for a little while I kbut one more shade of forgetfulne-s would r
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