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GLIMPSES INTO A EURAL HOUSE OE BONDAGE ;...
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have no bonnetno _^ shawl to escape in . But to a spirit like Sarah's what mattered , such lack of garments ? Out she rushed—in her
thin every bonnet -day dress concealed of the in thinnest her pocket materials - —out into , bare the arm dark s , and and with almost a 7 thof the
unknown roadin the morning of December the 1 , one bitterest morning , 's ever known , and amidst ran on hail mile and after sleet mile B in the the
tim thinnest e she shoes reached , on O the roug she h felt road perished , with . cold . On . her y way to O— twice did Sarah hear rapidly approaching vehicles , and
fearing and lay that breathless , she was beneath pursued it , until she scrambled first one and throug then h the the hed other ge ,
woman passed Weary , by takin , . wet g ; compassion and miserable upon , she her , reached invited O her — into , where her cottage a before poor ,
dried her clothesmade her warm herself by the fire , and set her a comfortable , breakfast . Overcome by the warmth and the fell onl
however soothing effe to start cts of the in food alarm after as she her suddenl exertions y heard , she the quick asleep , tramp y , , up , It
Hopeful Feeling of a horse , herself with passing a long again the whi secure house p , and , . Sarah a She great looked drop roug t h once forth dog more , . in pursuit to was sleep of young , her but .
young by what Hop road eful she sped had on fled to E , seeing , wondering that no one where had she observed was , and her
enter On O Sarah — ' s . setting . forth , the poor , woman , her hospitable shawl
entertaineralthough her guest was unknown to her , hung a over her if I shoulders never , see , say it again ing , " . I It don owes 't need me nothing it ; and . it I have don't others matter , and much it observes
will keep you warm . " Truly as Wordsworth — When Long for they some " can The momen know poorest t and s in poor feel a wear that y they life liave been
* Of Themse some lves smal l blessings authors . Have the been dealer kind s ou to t _siich kindness
As needed . " _& '— As — Sarah ? about had a slept mile several from E hours cob . , it As was she noon passed at the before the door Ploug she Himself reache h Inn d ,
she lowever recognised she saw young nowhere Hopeful and ' s if standing he had seen her pass . , scarcely , vould vithout he bonnet , have and recognised shawl . , her Such , , believing he told her that mother she , would was her appear
_conlition . Pie had been of course to seek for Sarah at her mother ' s _lottage . To her mother the new her s that arrival she had fled filld he r with surprise the ,
) ut the fact , and especially non-, e itmost At E anxiety . however , the pursuer came across , if not Sarah ,
_various ) thersan persons eccentric , who elderl expressed y gentleman their sentiments , who asked prett him y freely some ; amon curious gst ,
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Glimpses Into A Eural House Oe Bondage ;...
GLIMPSES INTO A EURAL HOUSE _OE BONDAGE ; 239
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/23/
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