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may derived secure from independence the ? services of to a the woman old ' age s pen , or , to time aid in of such suffering , way , as of
those who have used it -with , the purest hand , the purest , purpose , for He the briefl advocacy y promises of truth he in will all its . He shapes does . not again recur to the >
r way subject _-ead . y furnished , Instead but _gradually of cottage continuing elicits , sends what his for and tour his will , wife as serve , he a his gentle proposed purpose but , here he in somewhat hires another in this a
fine invalided country lad of y , hills some , and serva woods nts , , and streams a carriage , he . spends So his autumn : holiday , going frequently to the her Cressets and his ' wife cottage all , the taking the remark aged
able lady or drives memorable , and visiting laces with amidst this land of hills . more The more he - sees of this well-known p woman ; the more he knows of a history on
which the sun of Fortune has so little shone ; the more he learns to love her fortitude , her patience , her intense faith ; the more he unthe
derstands her breadth of intellect , her tenderness of soul ; more hand he perceive the more s that he for estimates her the her spring services of blessed and those renovation of women is near like at ,
, her . His younger boys grow much attached to little Mary excursions , for they
have no sister , and take her with them on their fishing , in their rambles in the woods , and ask her to spend her Christmas with , them at their home .
Occasion soon takes him to London , and there the wealthy ironlarger master , and emp better loys some portion well of accustomed Mary Cresset and ' s able writings author , and to coEect edit them the
with care . The volume , cheap in price , handsome in appearance , meets cordant with to unexpected all but the and few extraordinary of one generation success are ; for accep truths ted , and
disharmonious to a nobler age . To this result , so unexpected , , the ironmaster adds a fitting sumveils of course the giving with the
, subtlest care , —the angels lend the shadow of their wings to gifts like these , —and so the dear lady not suspecting the hallowed
artifice , accepts this access of fortune with honest joy . Henceforth the ; little shop is closedLydia lays by her patient needle , and serves ;
, onl Mr y in . E her gerton office ' s friend of ministration , the eminent . statist , hearing of these things ,
and all thereto belonging , makes mentions of them in divers _places as the winter wears away . They reach the ear of Miss Curwen ,
the lettered wealthy lady , who has been inspired by Tennyson ' a noble and a certain Lady Mildred Vernonan earl's daugh-.
ter , who poem , thoug , h extremely young , is one of the , finest mathematicians and scholars of the ageand whothough bred up amidst ,
obsolete prejudices , takes and makes , her , own the noblest truths the mountain peaks of Time . It matters not to her the creed
woman upon or rank ; is where faithful woman to the suffers God- , iven where instincts woman of is her . insp soul ired ther , where e is
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/42/
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