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30 STILL LIFE.
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my existence if it liad not been for old Nancy , who abounded in anecdotes innumerable—somewe are bound to confessnot greatl
, , y customs to our . credit—concerning * our infantile prattle , appearance , and
the At im sixteen age of , my being mother a tall , who girl was for universall my age , and allowe generall d to y have declared been y
taug a beautiful ht me all woman the , I suppose teries of I needlework was not bad of looking which . she Nancy was mys
methods mistress , of instructed making me preserves how to , wines keep , house and , pastry and the ; while most my approved father ,
when * his day ' s work was done , regularly heard me read , and inspected my sums and copy-book , which I never failed to prepare
during his absence ; I never Trent to school , and never had any young * companions . Crowhurst was an isolation , its master was the same ; and he expected his childrenor at least his daughter—for
William , who was many years my senior , , did go to schoola sort of agricultural college in Yorkshire—to follow his example . ,
mother father My life stood had at any that aloof near time _frorn relations was his on ) nei no the ghbours one whole could happy ( neither call , for him he though a nor loomy my my
man , and I never remember being afraid of asking * him the g most trivial and as nothing question * , , to or our of mind interrup is so ting valuable his most in formin serious the cog character itations ;
blessed years of a woman older . than as constant herself , and I consider , free intercours these my e with early a days good g as man peculiarl many y
I believe my mother was an orphan . I say believe , because this was the one only subject on which I and my father , hy tacit conent
s , never conversed . I know from Nancy that she was a pious woman ; moreoverI fancy that for the days in which she lived
, she was a great reader , for , besides some fifty odd volumes all bearing her maiden name , which stood in our parlor on the shelves
between the windows , Nancy and I discovered , one spring when we were busy over the annual turn-out , two large boxes of books—a
valuable treasure to me—whose contents supplied me with an endless and inexhaustible fund of speculation and information .
Mil-Bunyan lines ton , and are , B Dry nearl axter den y , , the and as blessed famili Shakespeare ar Edwardes to me , I know as and the by the words heart heavenl , of their inspiration Le g i lorious hton ;
meagre have been histories my constant , a better comp choice anions of for biograp , the last hies half and century y five ; or g a few six ,
novels of questionable tendency , completed my store , . This was the food on which my mind chiefly fed , and these old volumes the grand
agents in preventing stagnation and pollution of feeling and understanding .
My field of observation was limited in the extreme * I knew
nobe thing caug of ht life by from communic actual a experience tion with th except e farm such labor glimpses ers , their as mi wives ght
30 Still Life.
30 STILL LIFE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/30/
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