Family secrets; or, Hints to those who would make home happy (1842) (14743587256)

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Title: Family secrets; or, Hints to those who would make home happy
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1812-1872
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Publisher: London : (Fisher)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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burden, by others having taken this affair upon themselves.Grace had imagined it would be so, for she possessed thatkind of intuitive insight into character, which a naturallystrong power of sympathy affords, and which is, perhaps,more serviceable, in the common events of life, than talentsof a higher and more distinguished order. Thus, before the day of the funeral arrived, GraceDalton had become a sort of authorized assistant in themelancholy preparations ; and retiring and modest as washer general bearing, her aunt and cousins were surprised tofind the tact and skill with which she contrived to managethese affairs, without appearing to manage them at all.Mrs. Falkland and her daughter had both made the sameexperiment, and had both failed. They were too much offine ladies to «uit the taste of such a man as Kennedy;and, besides, they were now too happy to sympathize withhim in reality, though they spoke fluently and well in thelanguage of condolence. Grace, on the contrary, seldom i
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THE RISING TIDE. 2^ uttered an expression which could lead the reserved andsolitary man to think that he himself was the subject ofher observations. He only noticed tliat she took a partin the preparations for the funeral; and he thought it wasquite right for those who had a taste for such things, totake them into their own hands. And now the morning of that day had come, and allthings were in readiness ; and Grace Dalton felt that liermelancholy task was done; for what right had she to takepart in the mourning? what right had she even to be seento weep ? for what were the Kennedys to her ? While she Avas occupied, while she trod with gentlestep about the house, and felt that she had an errand orduty there, she was comparatively happy. She could evenpass the door of that silent room, though she had donethis as seldom as possible; but now that all was ready,that the grave claimed its own, and the sacred chargemust be resigned, she felt a strange sinking of the soul,a sense of forlornne