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242 GLIMPSES INTO A RUEAL HOUSE OF BONDA...
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feeHng , rushed back into the kitchen , and folding lier head in her apron , as she dropt into a chairwept passionately . Meanwhile
, the whence daine she had sent escaped down out word of her that tub ' ¦ _' ¦ , the and bag dis - app gage eared should to her be bedroom paid her ,
wages and instantly dismissed ! " The old master , however , drank his tea very comfortably in much composure , saying every now and
then , with a smile and shake of the head— " Charlotte , Charlotte , sad ease , Charlotte ; never take it so to heartCharlotte ; served her
just right , Charlotte ; she does not know when , she has a good servant , but I do . I hired you , Charlotte ; you're my servant . Never mind
her , lass ! There will be a storm , but it will blow over . " And so it _hapxDened . But Charlotte stayed out her time !
The old man foretold exactly what came to pass , " that her mistress would let her alone for the rest of her time . " Very often the old
farmer smiled at even a casual mention of " the tub , " saying " that ¦ was a sad affair , that tub affair . I urged the missis to have
Charlotte up ; but no ! Had Charlotte struck her or pushed her about , why she would have had her up . _BLit of all places , to be put
into a _sivill-ttib ; no , it would not do to mention that /" Could I have given the foregoing as I had it from the girl's relative ,
¦ it g iving would 1 _publicit be comic y to enoug this h " , Tal _biit e of I cannot a Tub , . " for I Crabbe have hesitated says about
" A It tale is indeed that shall a foolish be deemed tiling to improbable tell , . . "
Yet another similar fact I know to be true . The arrogant and indignant treatment high-spirited girls iendure , tempts reprisals , and thus
mistresses at times are the victims of retributive poetical justice . A she brother _having of pointed Charlotte him the out next in the year iC statits hired . " himself to her master ,
"I ' m near of kin to Charlotte , " said Charley . ' _"'" If thee art , thee ' rt a good wooled ' unand a'll hire thee "
returned the master . , , He did so , and Charley stayed there four years with the best of
masters and the very worst of mistresses that he ever knew . A clergyman in Lincolnshire has made some stir about the vice
and dissipation attending statutes , and a committee was formed at one of our chief towns to turn the tide of pleasure-seekers into the
temperance channel . But the terrible mass of moral debasement , the crying wrongs , and the bitter retribution which we are paying * ,
and must pay , is quite a new terra incognita . I am now wide awake as regards this domestic darkness in all its densityand will
endeavor to startle others as I myself have been startled . , It is all very excellent to . turn the ' stream of these _jDleasure-seekers
of the British slave marts into more rational channels , thereby lessening-the drunkenness and debaucherythe inseparable
atten-, dants upon such annual gatherings , but I have always myself felt
that this was only like " flinging , " as we say in the country , " their
242 Glimpses Into A Rueal House Of Bonda...
242 _GLIMPSES INTO A _RUEAL HOUSE OF BONDAGE _!
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/26/
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