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MISS BOSAETQTJET. 31
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Considerable Interest Having Been Expres...
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convenience " It consis . ted The of two peop rooms le of , as the ye t o un use furnished I had never . I seen before er , only , I knew any and them the by window character -seat to served be sober me persons as a chair . . I borr When owed bolting a table my door a candlestick I began to ,
muse " The on prejudices my presen of t situation education . are strong , especially in those person , s who have habi been tation broug seemed ht up rather very awful in hi . gh I looked life . The on myself being as removed being from liable a to parent a deep ' s
that reproach loveth , an father d trembled or mother at the more thoug than ht me . is But not I worth remembere y of me d . ' that word , * He ni borrowed gh " t _JVfy was mai a d being cold things now And of come t now he , f amil havin y captivity , sh g li begged gh seemed ted a me fire turning to in come the oth in er to ro it moment o , as , and the .
That thoug very ht , I am . brought out from my the world ; I have nothing every to do but ' to be overflow holy , e d t h in hear bod t and and such spiri a t , ' filled irit of me peace with and consolation content . poured Thankfulness into my
soul , that all about y me ; seemed a little sp heaven /' Mary Bosanquethaving now entered on her chosen life , shortly
, after fixed her residence at Leytonstone , in a house of her own , where she received a pious friend as inmate . Gradually a
few-Methodists gathered about them , and formed a Society , while in the care of destitute orphans her hours were fully occupied . From the
time she was seventeen she observes that " some drawings towards the care of children had dwelt on my mind , " but " for a good while
our family consisted of a servant , six orphans , and ourselves . " But as her friend Mrs . Ryan was an invalid , they presently
engaged a governess for the children , who increased in number ; some serious women were added to the household : altogether they received
thirty-five children and thirty-four grown persons , though not at one time . The elder members of the family rose between four and _^ _. ve ,
and all breakfasted at seven on herb tea and milk porridge , and the first lesson which they . endeavoured to impress on the young ones
was , that " an idle person is the devil ' s cushion on which he rolls at . pleasure . " It was an industrial training school , as four or _^ _ve of
the bigger girls were each week kept out of the classes by turns , and employed in housework , cooking , etc ., that they might be
accustomed to every sort of business , and there was labour enough in so large a family . We wish we had space to give the details of
this lifeand to show the perpetual work , which fell to the lot of Miss Bosanquet , . It naturally followed , from the early neglect
which the orphans had suffered , that they had bad health , and many of the grown people were also sickly , for to her warm heart poverty
and ill health were a passport ; but she quietly observes that " in the end all recovered who came in infirm . " She says that Mrs . Ryan was
to her as a mother , helping her , in spite of siokness , to carry out all her lans;—and an unclewriting to her , " My dear child , with
p , much pleasure I have heard of your charitable undertaking , which
I pray God to bless and succeed , " sent her an annual gift of two hun-
Miss Bosaetqtjet. 31
MISS _BOSAETQTJET . 31
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/31/
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