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Lizzie Leigh

 
dc.contributor Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press
dc.contributor.author Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
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dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-21T09:56:45Z
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dc.date.created 1850
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.title Lizzie Leigh
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Lizzie Leigh
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
[Chapter I]
When Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy to sorrow,—a more utter blankness to the desolation. Iames Leigh died just as the far away bells of Rochdale Church were ringing for morning service on Christmas Day, 1836. A few minutes before his death, he opened his already glazing eyes, and made a sign to his wife, by the faint motion of his lips, that he had yet something to say. She stooped close down, and caught the broken whisper, 'I forgive her, Anne! May God forgive me!'
'Oh my love, my dear! only get well, and I will never cease showing my thanks for those words. May God in heaven bless thee for saying them. Thou'rt not so restless, my lad! may be—Oh God!'
For even while she spoke, he dies.
They had been two-and-twenty years man and wife; for nineteen of those years their life had been as calm and happy, as the most perfect . . .
										
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