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AMALIE SIEVEKING. 23
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
better for heras she has three grown-up daughters and hardly the knows what tinacious to , give o them sition to of do the , yet father the whole who . cannot plan is bear frustrated that his by
child per should have opp any regular occupation , out of the house . Another for acquaintance fear the servant will not maid allow should his wife not to be visit sufficientl the poor looked in the mornings afternot , y
, spect as regards to her her morals work . , she Yet is when competent he takes enoug his wife h in out that into , but company with rethinks of the
maid and the ' s morals house being is left endangered for hours by together that . , Such he never , inconsistency ive the and
have of prej seeing udice been these often long prejudices grieves closed before and disappear vexes that me time , , thoug but arrives I h never my ; have and earthl g contributed if y up it eyes shall hop may be in e
foundas I believe will be the case , that I any measure , to such a result , it will be a blessing for which I shall thank God through all eternity . " been marvellousl
In 1856 her healthwhich had hitherto so y sustained dance became , began , necessary at last , . to Her give physician way , and abs constant olutel had y refused herself medical any done atten fees - ,
free much during service for a others long from and gratuitousl others anxious and y attendance , was she held only it grateful , to but be as no she for humiliation the kindness to receive . She so
visited one or two watering , places , and for a time experienced some benefit l from ilid the thoug change h , still but working for the next at intervals three years to the remained utmost more of her or
un abili ess able an ty , to gathering nva leave , the -fch b _ouse e peop . le It was and children she said around a necessity her to at her home , and when the
doctors found there was so much , truth in , this , that they let her do last as she and would at the . Increasing beginning weakness of 1859 , she how bade ever , force farewell d her to to the yield poor at
the peop , association le who had together attende , d told her them Bible her -class last , and wishes calling respecting " the ladies their of
future was compelled operations fin , all and y resi to dismiss gned her her superintendency young scholars . It , closed and In March then as such she she felt that indeed the business of her life was over .
a life should , calmly and gently . Very pleasant was the aspect of mostl dail that sunshiny y tri free bute from of room pain , where , lay loving on the her hearts invalid sofa often , surrounded weak slumbering as a by little flowers from Ghild , very , the yet
feebleness y but then many waking up again , to inquire who had beea with the the reading children , of that day h , and or how add the yet class a few had more gone lines on , to to listen the last to
letter for her kindred a ymn , in England . After a few days of greater suffering than she had before experienced , she sank to her longed
for With rest on a view the 1 to st overcome of April , the 1859 prejudice . of the poor against pauper she should be
funerals buried in , the Miss sty _Sieveldng le of the very had poorest left strict ; and orders in accordance that with her will
Amalie Sieveking. 23
AMALIE SIEVEKING . 23
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/23/
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