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Chapter Iii. A Few Days After The Imluck...
churchonce an object of my admiration , had also dwindled in its orti , onsand looked but an ordinary tower after all . In like
prop manner the , riverthe bridthe distant hillseach and all of them had changed for , the worse ge . , The whole appearance , of the place
seemed strange in my eyes . It took some time before they resumed their bygone shapes , and became familiar as of old . Such were a
few of the results of my having seen another world beyond the wallsof Carrington . Mrs . Richards cordially entered into my views for
the future ; at least the general view that I must work for my own living . In details we did not agreefor seldom can the young and
, the aged do so in matters of practical importance . The young , winged with enthusiasm and hope , wish to gain their point by flying ,
while the more mature , laden with'the weight of a hundred experiences , walk warily . I had no pleasure in the thought of teaching
little boys and girls to read , and for elder pupils I would havebeen considered too young . It was not the fashion at that time to
entrust young girls to the care of other girls as young as themselves ; instructing staid , dignified them women . I hear being much supposed now mor of the e capable improved of education guiding and of "
girls , but truly I would rather see , it than hear of it , for , with all deference to public taste and opinion , I consider the present
generation , in some aspects , far behind their grandmothers . The reader perhaps may smile when I say , that to keep a shop
or teach drawing divided my attention . Not , certainly , a shop in Which butter and eggs were to be sold , but a shop as -pretty as a
drawing-room , with only the addition of a counter . And , let me addthe shop was to be merely the means to an end—to make a
certain , sum of money , with which I intended to go to Home and prosecute love of art . A somewhat odd notion ; nevertheless it
¦ was entertained my until I was fain to abandon it from the reiterated , assurances of Mrs . Richards that if I did anything of the sort I
neednever more _exj _3 ect to pass in society as a young " lady , " never more be eligible as a guest at select tea-parties . In short , I should
be socially proscribed , and cut by all the genteel idlers of the town and neihborhood ; andworse than allI should be shut out of the
marriage g market , as no , clerk even could , so far forget his dignity as to dream of marrying a person who preferred to work in public
than starve in private , or act the idler on credit . ' _< No , Emily , " said Mrs . Richards , laughing-, after she had
listened to my scheme of establishing quite a pet of a shop , such as those I had frequently seen in Paris , superintended by women who
looked as much like ladies as anv of our best-bred town belles . " NoI must not suffer you thus rashly to victimise yourself . You ,
, the daughter of a professional man—why , my dear , you would never be forgivenand the whole community would turn up their eyes ,
( not to allude , to their noses , ) and call you a poor , low-minded thing , not worth a thought . "
" But / ' I exclaimed , " if no one is willing to run counter to _eucl _>
The Portrait. 18 B-
THE PORTRAIT . 18 B-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/45/
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