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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
had entered a counting - Louse in London , she kept tip a lively correspondencebut of social intercourse she enjoyed very little , and
passed her time , therefore in reading and in working embroidery for her supportan loyment which her relatives considered to be the
to one herself most b ; efit not ting emp exactl her from station feeling , but which it to was be far a humiliation from agreeable , but
, y becauseas she expressed it , "it seemed so terrible to spend the whole day , and effect nothing more than the decoration of a cushion ,
which after all would afford no sounder sleep than if it had remained _undecorated . " Her longing was to give her powers to something
which _shoLild be of real worth and utility , foredating thus the great yearning which has become so general among hex sex in the present
day , but which was tlien so rarely felt . Not that her motives at this time were free from an admixture of vanity and worldly
ambition , feelings which came specially into play in regard to the proficiency of most other young ladies in music ; thus many tears were
called forth by her inability to compete with tliem in this accomtook plishment to ive , so her that lessons her brother on _tlie G piano ., who but was so a utterl gifted y was musician she deficient ,
underin musical g talent that all her effort , s in this direction proved quite fruitless
. In the course of the next two years a wealthy cousin of her mother ' sthe widow Brunnemann , proposed that Amalie should
reside with , herto assist her in the charge of her only remaining unmarried son , a man of twentywho had been afflicted from
childhood with , a comp young laint which required , constant care and attendance . She was , however , very reluctant to play the part of a "
comwrote panion to , " her and brother though that she she finall would y agreed much to have take j > the referred situation to fit , her she
self to become a governess , and that she was resolved , as soon as the invalid should either recover or die , to leave Madame B . The latter
was an excellentkind-hearted woman , but rather stiff and formal , and in whose house everything , went by rule ; and herein reading to and
amusing tlie sick son , and helping the mother in , various matters , Amalie's life went quietly on until the death of the invalid , by
which timehowevershe had become so attached to her relative , that she found it , impossible , to keep her former resolution and leave her
in her sorrow . About the same time a great-aunt died leaving her a legacy , from which , added to what she afterwards inherited from .
Madame B ., and to the small pension she enjoyed as a senator ' s daughter , she derived an income quite sufficient for the supply of
lier Hamfcmrg D simp uring le , the Madame wants year . 1812 B ., thoug , when h continuin the French g to rule live was in her so oppressive usual style in ,
found it necessary to economise as much as possible , and Amalie , in considering what she could do to assist her in this respect , took the resolution that she would become her own laundress . It was no
small proof of the conscientiousness as well as of the energy of ttie
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/8/
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