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32 MISS BOSANQUET.
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Considerable Interest Having Been Expres...
dred and fifty guineas . Her parents , dying in 1767 , within a short period of each other , expressed towards her the greatest tenderness ,
and augmented her fortune , which proved they were fully satisfied with the result of that conviction which in its growth had given
them so much pain . But we must not linger over this part of her life , but proceed to
her removal from _Leytonstone , and settlement in Yorkshire , at a place called Crosshall , in the West Hiding .
Mrs . Ryan died shortly after the removal ; but before the final step was taken , and when , the house at Leytonstone being too
small , with no land attached to it , the two friends were consulting together as to what course they should pursue , Mrs . Ryan thus
addressed Miss Bosanquet : — " * My dear , I hardly know how to rejoice in the prospect of death , because I
stan see no d b way y yon for . ' you I . sai , d 1 , shall * My leave dear you love , can the you hands think of enemies of any , way but God for me will ? It is sometimes presented to my mind that 1 should be called to marry Mr .
that Fletcher step . . ' * But She unless replied he , should ' I like be him of t a very best tender of any dispositi man , if ever on toward you do s you take , you would not be happy : but God will direct you . '"
From this time we occasionally , through the course of long years , meet with observations about" Mr . Fletcher ; " and though a certain
Mr . , in Yorkshire \ formed for her a most romantic attachment , and , as she quaintly observes , " made me an offer of his hand ,
his heart , and his purse , " she would not listen to his suit . We must give a curious anecdote about this affair ; it seems that the
gentleman , who had lost a wife whom he tenderly loved , had heard of Miss Bosanquet , and thought that perhaps she " was brought to
Yorkshire by the Providence of God to repair his loss . " But he was personally unacquainted with her , till
som " One peo day ple , , we as called I was a returning t an inn to fro bait m a li the ttle horse journe . y Mr where . I was had standing been to m at a t my window horse of . that A th inn ou . ght 1 struck came out his , mind and s , to 'I od shoul some d like me that at the woman block for wai a tin wife g for ;'
a — con but verted instantl or y an he corre unconverted cted it with person that ; a re married flection , I or know a sing not le whether woman . she Jusfc be coming then Mr out . Tay to lor speak came to him up , with was much the horse struck . The to find gentleman it was me knew . " him , and ,
such * " a The mind pious preceding reader the will union not be of disp that leased admirable to see coup that le such . The an impression impression was was made mutual on .
, In a letter from Mr . Fletcher to Mr . Charles Wesley ( see Mr . Fletcher ' s Works , vol . vii . ) we find the following sentiments . * You ask me a very singular question , —I shall
answer it with a smile , as I suppose you asked it . You might have remarked that for to some what days I had before done I set : and off the for person Madeley who I then considered presented matrimony herself to with my imag a different ination was eye
that Miss J Bosanquet should , . perhap Her image s , have pursued lost my me peace for some , if a hours susp the icion last of day the , and truth that of so Juvenal warmly 's , from proverb the , lad Veniunt ) had a not dote made sagittce me blush ( "The fi arrows htand come flee to from Jesus the who portion delivered , " rather me at than the
same moment y from , her image , and the , idea g , of marriage . ' There , will be some regret , was perhaps all , ordered felt , that for a the long . good and of suffering both , — time for an should eternal intervene union , befo —' for re that the marriage union . But of _tfre it
_Lamb J' "—Note to Memoir ,
32 Miss Bosanquet.
32 MISS BOSANQUET .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/32/
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