Capitolo 26
the cruelty and badly that you/they have marked my life from the alone period, mentioned, above to the present. It is enough to say those many events in my house-life you/he/she has left theirs desiccating to thrill on my heart and brain; and many, me thank goodness you/he/she is grown weak by my memory. But when me it was fifteen, around the duration me and You digitammo this seminar, a event took place that has hurt deeply my heart and it will go away it aching forever. It was this: "In the morning of my fifteenth birthday my father came very soon, to my room and it congratulated him me with many kisses, while giving me his blessing. Then he said: "'My daughter, I have here the miniature of Your mother, taken before Your birth. I had him rise up then diamonds, for you my child, dreaming little that she would be picked up so early from us both. I have held surely closed street, while to properly enough wait up to you was old to appreciate his/her value. Now to-day, in Your fifteenth birth-day, me you/he/she has provoked the treasure, and it gives forever him for him. Pick him/it up; attentively hold him/it, my child in the interest of the living one as the corpse.' My father placed the miniature in my hand, and you/he/she turned away with sick-disguised emotion. Slightly, and with trembling hand, me opened the casket that has contained the treasure, and for the first one time since his/her death, my eyes weakly remained on the they remembered characteristics of my mother of angel. "Or Lizzie Heartwell! To the first look of that sweet, but does mean-forgotten, I fell, as a defenseless thing that I was, to the floor, prostrates with emotion. How much time I was so old from pain and crying, I don't know. I didn't know anything up to the old one voice family, sour, cold, and cruel it fell on my ear as the door open. "'Leah Mordecai, because it is a liar crying there as a fool? What is the matter with You?' says my mother. "Unintentionally I made to keep silent my hiccups, desiccated my torn wounds, and it rose to mine
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