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Jeanie, now in some degree restored to the power of
thought, joined in the same request. The next day found
the father and daughter still in the depth of affliction,
but the father sternly supporting his load of ill through
a proud sense of religious duty, and the daughter anxiously
suppressing her own feelings to avoid again awakening
his. Thus was it with the afflicted family until the
morning after Porteous’s death, a period at which we
are now arrived.
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CHAPTER TENTH
Is all the counsel that we two have shared,
The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent
When we have chid the hasty-footed time
For parting us—Oh!—and is all forgot?
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
WE HAVE BEEN a long while in conducting Butler to the
door of the cottage at St. Leonard’s; yet the space which
we have occupied in the preceding narrative does not
exceed in length that which he actually spent on
Salisbury Crags on the morning which succeeded the
execution done upon Porteous by the rioters. For this
delay he had his own motives. He wished to collect his
thoughts, strangely agitated as they were, first by the