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BOSA EONHEUR. 231
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could species she of have confinement had her or own constraint would , always have in been motion always , and in who the , way
open affectionate air . From and her earliest disposition years , , but she she was abhorred remarkable her lessons for her ,
and was a prodig generous ious time in acquiring , even the elements of reading and writing . When not in the fields she was sure to be in the
frequentl p garden arrot , ; a y household and call one out of " pet her Rosa belong earliest ! Rosa ing ! remembrances " to in her a voice grandfather off so is into exactl that , who the y of like a would grey her
mother ' s , that the child , who always slipped garden catechism when she would thought return her mother to the was house going , supposing to make that her her repeat mother her ,
had called her . The mother , seeing the truant arrive , would seize bird recital the opportunit angril ; and Rosa for y of , the as making soon trick as it her the had go lesson playe throug d was her h , with over and , threaten would the unwelcome scold it with the
direful vengeanc y e if it ever took her in again . But if Rosa hated her books , she dearly loved all natural objects , and was the happiest
of creatures when rambling in wood or meadow , watching the clouds , luxuriating in the sunshine and breeze , and gathering posies
as big as herself . At that time her complexion , now so browned her by the hair sun of , a was liht extremel reddish y fair brown , and curled her cheeks naturall were all as over red her as roses head ; y ;
and she , was so g plump , that the , Spanish poet , Moratia , who then resided in Bordeauxand generally spent his evenings at Raymond
Bonheur ' sused to , call her " Ma boule ronde" The celebrated poetwho , had been the intimate friend of the last great Spanish
painter , , Gaya , had been banished by the government of Madrid for having chaunted the praises of the French invasion in 1808 . He
had conceived a great affection for Raymond Bonheur and his familthe " round ball" being his particular favourite ; and he
would y , romp with the merry and vigorous child for hours together , enjing her frolicsand laughing over the rude figures which she
was oy fond of cutting , out of paper with her scissors . Rosa ' s childish activities prompting her to endeavour to imitate whatever she saw
going on around her , her fondness for cutting out these figures , and . the deliht she took in amusing herself with the objects in father ' s >
g studio—drawing rough outlines on the walls , or burying her little fat hands in the clayand making grotesque attempts at modelling
, —attracted no special attention , but were regarded by her family as being one of the issues through which her restless desire of /
many about doing found her ; the vent old . But poet there augured was much nothing from * of the the precocious boldness , vi genius gour ,
and originality of her nature , and frequently prophecied that his . little remarkable favorite woman would ' turn _oiit to be , in some way or other , " a
. The enforced obscurity to which he found himself condemned was- *
necessarily irksome to an artist like Raymond Bonheur , conscious o £
Bosa Eonheur. 231
BOSA _EONHEUR . 231
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/15/
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