Junior High School Literature, Book 1Elson, William H. (William Harris)
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Junior High School Literature, Book 1
Elson, William H. (William Harris)
American literature; English literature; Readers
Here I might well end all these pages of writing; but I cannot refrain
from adding a few more sentences, to tell the reader what I am sure he
will be glad to hear. In the summer-time of this present year eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, I happened to be at New York, and having spare
time on my hands, and spare cash in my pocket, I walked into one of the
biggest and grandest of their ordinaries there, to have my dinner. I had
hardly sat down at table, before whom should I see opposite but Mrs.
Atherfield, as bright-eyed and pretty as ever, with a gentleman on her
right hand, and on her left—another Golden Lucy! Her hair was a shade or
two darker than the hair of my poor little pet of past sad times; but in
all other respects the living child reminded me so strongly of the dead,
that I quite started at the first sight of her. I could not tell if I was
to try, how happy we were after dinner, or how much we had to say to each
other. I was introduced to Mrs. Atherfield’s husband, and heard from him,
among other things, that Miss Coleshaw was married to her old sweetheart,
who had fallen into misfortunes and errors, and whom she was determined
to set right by giving him the great chance in life of getting a good
wife. They were settled in America, like Mr. and Mrs. Atherfield—these
last and the child being on their way, when I met them, to visit a friend
living in the northernmost part of the States.
With the relation of this circumstance, and with my personal testimony to
the good health and spirits of Captain Ravender the last time I saw him,
ends all that I have to say in connection with the subject of the Wreck
of the Golden Mary, and the Great Deliverance of her People at Sea.
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