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MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE. 237
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"The Seed Has The Li Risen Ttle Seed And...
lifts up her modest eyes petitioning for remembrance . Even the lo lilies vely of than the valley the summer in all their garniture Oriental of pride numberless could hardl of these y be sweet more
children . of Flora in Helvetia . Needlework and the customary avocations of women , were preand to
good both cluded sexes hy the at Bertha necessity once . and The of giving spindle other her royal and lessons distaff ladies in the which had open y immortal ielded air , to _izied the
. some spinning Queen of - her wheel older , as that ils many in like turn their was grandmothers superseded , , b mi y machinery ght still have , or pup
exercised this ancient manual , art whilst standing by her side ; but an incidental fact jotted down in the naif chronicle of Pierre could
Lecoultreseems to warrant the presumption that what she was convenientl not omitted , y impart . " in About that this most epoch important " ( a few branch years of after female she com lore
menced her ministration ) " our women began to wear stockings , which nothing they but had gaiters learnt made to knit of coarse for themselves woollen shoes cloth , having but , the till same then clumsil as worn their
fingers garm over them ents , . " which not The incompatible did acquisition not go with into of this the their p acquirement leasing , employment lapped of reading for , and the y
was that was a much vast preliminary individual good step towards had been future alread refinement y achieved . by It this is evident admito that
rable womanbut it was as dust in the balance compared which time ere , long developed . With the indomitable le wherever love of born country ,
so marked a characteristic of the Swiss peopor placed some , many old youthful all alike emigrants bringing returned with to them Chenit in , a some greater in middle or less
age , , chanical degree , not skill simp the ly regular the rewards habits of the former sober experience industry , , but and the shrewd me - -
ness of men of , the world , to guide , their compatriots of the valley . The modern traveller in Switzerland , who , on a sweet summer ' s track
day , looks pantingly back on the steep rugged winding sheepb tinge y which of self he -comp has lacency reached at a his lofty hardihood eminence , the , or broad surveys pebbl , with y bed some of ine
a mountain streamlet crossed at the risk of wet boots , may imag of ( none the other people can of ) what the valley she braved during in the her spring devotion and to autumn the the interests of that
region of varying climate , when the trickling' rill of morning * dark shining gliding tang gentl throug led foliage y h down the of green a the preci overshadowing flower pitous -bespang hill like trees led a turf has silver , now in thread the lost evening in , now the
, utmost grown into and a broad caution , shallow in stepp , but ing impetuous from tottering river stone , demanding to tottering the
care stream stone to int escape o some being neig carried hbouring down lake the or rushing dangerous , leap dell ing ; , when brawling in the
mantle bright of sunny thick sk heavy y of clouds mid-day surcharged becomes suddenl with , delug y _shrouded ing rain , and a
Maria Bocci La Moinette. 237
MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE . 237
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/21/
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