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234 MARIA BOCCI liA MOINETTE.
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infancy ¦ which their , to enable future well them -being to assist so much in getting depends * up ) mi the ght harvest break oil in
on her solitude . It would seem from her success , thatwith the arfc and habit of teachingshe had the hiherrarer quality , of
imparting pleasingly the , information she herself g , possessed : that kind of intuitive knowledge which instinctively perceives the
difficulties of comprehension , and guards against them by the employment of the simplest wordsthe lainest definitionsthe gentlest
manner . These humble Al , ine soirees p were no doubt , well attended ; and whilst she plied p her whirring wheel it must have
proved some compensation for the sacrifices she made , to see by the sparkling liht of her lowingcrackling ine-firethese youthful
faces shining g with happ g iness , and , brightening p into , intelligence of which she was the oriin . It is one of the pleasing features of
Swiss cantonal governments g that a portion of the annual autumnal forest-falls is given in due proportion to each family of a village ,
" and the tedious sombre winter is thus beguiled of some of its hardships and terrors . So passed the dull days of November ,
December , and January ; in the night she had the bliss of being alone , and could hold in peaceful stillness communion with her
Maker . During these trying months , when storms of hail and sleet and
rain often obscure the face of heaven , and snow frequently lies four or Rve feet deep on the groundshe never quitted Chenit ; but
February in "Western Switzerland , usually ushers in a welcome " changeand with the first approach of springwhen the daisy
¦ Paquerette ( dear to , — the Easter Swiss flower child —synonymous by its sweet to them emblematical of , the disappearance name of
of winter ' s rude rule ) threw back its crimsoned-tipped petals , and exposed its golden bosom to the briht beams of the yet powerless
sun ; and the pretty titmouse showed g again her dark velvet cap and green breast , mingling her plaintive chirp of joy with the sober
hum of the early bee ; and the sulphur butterfly emerged from the brown armour he had worn as his winter shield ; and the lady-bird
sported her gay mantle of coral and jet ; and the lively little grey ' lizard , with his round gHttering mouse-like eyes , ran fearlessly out
of his winter quarters in some old wall or cleft of rock , to revel again in light and air and liberty , —she resumed her wandering way ,
visifcing turn in turn the scenes of her summer labors , often , it may be apprehendedto witness the discouraging result of unsuccessful
experiments to enli , ghten intellects dulled by poverty and its Gorgon train of evilsand to repeat to satiety lessons more than half forgotten
during the amusements , , idleness , and sleep , so commonly indulged in by mountaineers in the cheerless Christmas tide .
Those and those only , habituated to the fatigue of teaching even the children of the affluentwho have watched over the learning
. of the hateful task , acquired , with , reluctance , and repeated with
hesitating , unwilling , careless lips , can in any degree _aj > preciate the
234 Maria Bocci Lia Moinette.
234 MARIA BOCCI liA _MOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/18/
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