The Wildfire Club - The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive
The Wildfire Club - The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive
The Wildfire Club - The Emma Hardinge Britten Archive
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280 THE WITCH 0"' LOWEN1'H .. U ..<br />
spirit oped the gate of that bright land of souls whereto<br />
• her hand gave the first welcome to the enfranchised soul<br />
of her most wronged and yet most happy victim ..<br />
"My Gertrude, friend! - my martyred saint, come<br />
home!" .<br />
.. My sister Clara, art thou there before me ? "<br />
<strong>The</strong> gates of light wide . opened to admit them, while<br />
spirit legions thronged to meet the victims of superstitious<br />
error, ignorance, and wrong ..<br />
<strong>The</strong>y laid the noble baroness in state - bewitched e'en<br />
unto death, the story ran - beneath the splendid marble<br />
which recalled her fate; and by her crumbling form two<br />
sorrowing men, in secret. -and at midnight's lone, tttill hour,<br />
placed a small crystal vase, enclosed wits pearls, containing<br />
but a few black gathered ashes - one long, black tre88,<br />
with One fair curl inwove - and on the golden lid they<br />
carved out" GE:&nuDE."
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