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The First Offence.
with all the vividness of the present , he can hear the sobs of anguish which , though his proud spirit acknowledged not , haunted him for months ; and now , though so many years have past , his hot tears are forcing their way through his fingers , and he sobs in that arbour more bitterly than the child had done before him—ayefar more bitterlyfor
, , her's were tears of sorrow , his are of penitence . At length , with an effort he roused himself ; and , with bowed head , left the garden , after thanking the woman for her civility , and wended his way up the green lane , and across a meadow to the church . He entered the rustic
gate , and , stepping over the neatly kept graves , made his way to one covered with flowers , and , removing his hat , stood before it . " Sacred to the memory of Mabel Wilmot , who departed this life August 5 , 18— , aged eighteen . " Yes—too true , she was gone ; the shock had been too
much for her enfeebled constitution ; she had begged to be brought home to die , and , in the little cottage where she had once been so happy , she breathed her last . She never saw Frederick ; he was too ill to come to her , and she was too weak to be taken to him , or bear the interview , or her heart-broken mother wouldin this extremityhave
con-, , sented to anything . He stood by the grave some few moments—took a small flower from it , which he placed in his bosom , and moved slowly away . At the inn he had a companion waiting for him from whom he was never separated—his tutor , lamed for life by the fearful fall which
Osborne ' s blow had occasioned , whose feet catching in the roots of a tree had alone saved him from a watery grave , and Osborne from the charge of murder . From the moment that , on becoming conscious , he ascertained that the poor man lived , Osborne vowed never to be parted from him—to make the only reparation he was able for the injury
he had wrought him , and secure to him a home for life ; he brought him back to England , nursed him with the tenderest care , and the arm which had injured him , evermore sustained and supported him . He had loved poor Mabel with all the ardour of youth and his ardent natureandanxious as his mother was to
; , see him settled , he could not make up his mind to love another ; but , growing up to womanhood , is a fair , gentle girl , his tutor ' s youngest sister ; and it is said , that since poor Mabel Wilmot died , Frederick has never been seen to
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The First Offence.
with all the vividness of the present , he can hear the sobs of anguish which , though his proud spirit acknowledged not , haunted him for months ; and now , though so many years have past , his hot tears are forcing their way through his fingers , and he sobs in that arbour more bitterly than the child had done before him—ayefar more bitterlyfor
, , her's were tears of sorrow , his are of penitence . At length , with an effort he roused himself ; and , with bowed head , left the garden , after thanking the woman for her civility , and wended his way up the green lane , and across a meadow to the church . He entered the rustic
gate , and , stepping over the neatly kept graves , made his way to one covered with flowers , and , removing his hat , stood before it . " Sacred to the memory of Mabel Wilmot , who departed this life August 5 , 18— , aged eighteen . " Yes—too true , she was gone ; the shock had been too
much for her enfeebled constitution ; she had begged to be brought home to die , and , in the little cottage where she had once been so happy , she breathed her last . She never saw Frederick ; he was too ill to come to her , and she was too weak to be taken to him , or bear the interview , or her heart-broken mother wouldin this extremityhave
con-, , sented to anything . He stood by the grave some few moments—took a small flower from it , which he placed in his bosom , and moved slowly away . At the inn he had a companion waiting for him from whom he was never separated—his tutor , lamed for life by the fearful fall which
Osborne ' s blow had occasioned , whose feet catching in the roots of a tree had alone saved him from a watery grave , and Osborne from the charge of murder . From the moment that , on becoming conscious , he ascertained that the poor man lived , Osborne vowed never to be parted from him—to make the only reparation he was able for the injury
he had wrought him , and secure to him a home for life ; he brought him back to England , nursed him with the tenderest care , and the arm which had injured him , evermore sustained and supported him . He had loved poor Mabel with all the ardour of youth and his ardent natureandanxious as his mother was to
; , see him settled , he could not make up his mind to love another ; but , growing up to womanhood , is a fair , gentle girl , his tutor ' s youngest sister ; and it is said , that since poor Mabel Wilmot died , Frederick has never been seen to