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D'Aumale and Montpensier were still gay young bachelors, and well would it have been for the welfare of the Orleans family and the credit of Louis Philippe if one of them had remained so. There was a widow as well as a bride in the house. There were the cherished memories of a dearly-prized lost son and daughter to touch with tender sorrow its blithest moments and lightest words.
It was a very welcome and dearly-prized letter, and the reading of it made me very happy. I don't think I had felt so happy all the months we had been in Ireland as I was feeling that evening. Do you remember my saying I never forget the year all this happened?
John Hollands was trying to make amends for the cruel wrong he had done to poor Jane, and had sent her a written statement which would wipe off the stain he had himself cast on her character; and with this he had sent Jane's dearly-prized Bible and the companion bracelet to the one seen by Lady Morville in Jane's hand, and given up by her to her mistress on that unhappy morning.
Should there be none for me, I was in despair imagining all the various calamities, probable and improbable, that might have happened although I might have heard from England only a few days previously; while, should I obtain a dearly-prized note from my darling, I was in ecstasy only to be on the look out for the next mail a moment afterwards! I was never satisfied.
The complaints and appeals of the Quakers had at last produced some effect, and there was well-grounded apprehension that the sense of power which had brought the Colony to act with the freedom of an independent state, might result in the loss of some of their most dearly-prized privileges.
Perhaps some future age will do justice to the memory of the man to whose daring pen we are so largely indebted for those dearly-prized privileges of free government, to the ablest advocate of human liberty the world has known, and whose piety was deep and fervent as that of St. Paul himself.
He then placed it in her hand. Yes, she could see that it was indeed her own dearly-prized Bible. "And the bracelet, Thomas?" she asked eagerly. He shook his head sadly. A shadow came over the face and tears into the eyes of his poor sister. "The Lord's will be done," she said patiently; "but tell me, dear Thomas, all about it." He then related what he had heard from Kate Foster.
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