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104 THE PORTRAIT.
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XVII.—THE PORTRAIT. ^—
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_.. I need not linger over the early daw...
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* "Wearied With Their Hours Of Gladness,...
Yet the promise sure remaineth , As the _Lioiti _) in heaven reigneth ,
" After eventide of sadness Morn shall rise with joy and gladness . "
Earth ' s are "April tears . " Forward to the bright to-morrow
Look the children in their sorrow ; Watch wetoo , the certain dawning :
, Of the everlasting morning That shall know no tears !
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104 The Portrait.
104 THE PORTRAIT .
Xvii.—The Portrait. ^—
XVII . —THE _PORTRAIT . _^—
_.. I Need Not Linger Over The Early Daw...
_ . . I need not linger over the early dawn of my day , but proceed , at once to that _iDoint from which may be dated the commencement of .
events which colored and influenced my entire existence . My mother was taken from us when we were mere children .
My father , a professional man in a , small town on the borders of Cumberlandspeedily followed her ; and at an early age my
brothers and , myself were tossed about from one relative to another . We were not rich ; therefore the possession of " the
dear little orphans" was not made a matter of contention , which is onlthe ease when minors have golden accompaniments . I had
however y an excellent inheritance—good health and good spirits ; , and as , a legacy , the warm interest and kindness shown by a
large circle of my father's friends , who , from his position , was widely known , and a man much loved and esteemed . The relative
with whom I liked best to reside , and whose small cottage was the onllace I knew as a homewas a woman whowithout any claim
y p , , to rank , riches , or genius , yet made her _j _^ ower felt , and exercised a species of moral magnetism on all who came within her calm ,
strengthening influence . So far as the mature in years can sympatwice thize , as I , a girl of summers eighteen did , and so . Mrs I . never Richards disguised , numbering either more thoug th hts an
or feelings many from this dear , friend . On some points we did not agree ; it would have been unnatural had we not thus at times been at
variance , for youth and age cannot see through the same spectacles . I was full of hope , self-reliant , and world-defying—world-defying ,
with all the fierte and insouciance of girlhood , just because I knew not what " the world" signifiedwith its leaden weights and iron
, fetters . I was at this stage , when an invitation arrived from Mrs . Bethunea distant connexionto pay her avisit . I would have
declined , itas Bethune Park was , one of the places of which I had ,
not a pleasant remembrance . It is true I had only been there once ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/32/
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