The Argosy . - turns to wine Each bitter spring of pain :But there was one I never called my friend, One who but came and life was moulded to a separate end With mine in nothing blent;And yet, when darkness closes round my way And hides the distant shore,I know that there must rise a longer day, That we may meet once more I I. F. mf z b CdSH O z >o - THE ARGOSY. DECEMBER, THE WHITE WITCH. CHAPTER XXXIV. ESCAPE. IN Mrs. Maynes idolatrous love for her son she had been cruel toMary Davenant. She expected her to sacrifice herself for himutterly : and Mrs. Mayne did not loo
The Argosy . - turns to wine Each bitter spring of pain :But there was one I never called my friend, One who but came and life was moulded to a separate end With mine in nothing blent;And yet, when darkness closes round my way And hides the distant shore,I know that there must rise a longer day, That we may meet once more I I. F. mf z b CdSH O z >o - THE ARGOSY. DECEMBER, THE WHITE WITCH. CHAPTER XXXIV. ESCAPE. IN Mrs. Maynes idolatrous love for her son she had been cruel toMary Davenant. She expected her to sacrifice herself for himutterly : and Mrs. Mayne did not look upon it as any sacrifice. Shehad sacrificed Mary once—in forcing her by soft, persuasive wiles,which the girl was unable to resist—to go through the ceremony ofmarriage with him. Fortunately for Mary the ceremony ended it;but the girls future life was sacrificed. Whilst the mother and daughter were afterwards together on thecontinent in partial hiding and in terror, she began to say a word ortwo to Mary, very guardedly, about the expediency of her joiningher husband in America : but the girl received the suggestion withso much horror, that Mrs. Lang as she was then, though calling herselfDixon, drew in. In the very few letters Edward Lang ventured towrite to his mother, he urged her to send Mary out to him; by for
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