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222 ANNALS OE NEEDLEWOMEN.
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• Chapter Iii. Poyebty Is, At All Times,...
" favorites" she said cc of her father's . " It was most affecting towatch her ; , as slie played , Iier whole countenance made seemed realize to the change value ,
ruin of and cultivating s care of her vanished fallen in childhood . fortunes The sig the ht apart before talents from me God old - has friends g me iven and us . associ Amid ates the _-,
surrounded by poverty and , _neg-lect , this old lady was yet able to , - draw from her own treasured resources a balm which , she said
herself , " was better than any medicine , for it soothed both the body ' s pain For and some the time mind she ' s distress played . " on , turning round to ! ask This , from h time she to
time" if I knew this airor remembered another ymn her had children , played in . " stick Thus a church she , retraced , that Scotch old times air was and a scenes favorite , till with she
seemed to live among them again . It would be difficult to convey the at leng feeling th closing of respectful the pi p ity , that she I again experienced sat down as music I by listened me had , and to with her ht ;
her memory refreshed by the recollections the broug back to hershe recounted the sad history that had reduced her to Iier present , state of poverty . While doing so , she cried bitterly ;
but the tears seemed to relieve her . Mrs . D ' s father was a large iny trade old . manufacturer His friend country had - been house , who b was orn had . at Her amassed a little childhood distance much and wealth from earl M y in womanhood the , where glass
were nursed in that luxury which is peculiarly seen in the class of life to which she belonged ; no expense had been spared on her educationor on the gratification of her tastes and . pleasuresand
her parents , lavished on her every possible indulgence . They , had a large circle of acquaintance , and went out a great deal in society ,
into which she accompanied them . Mrs . D here told me that , being very lively , she was much courted and admired , and with the
pride that would show _ivliat she had been , recounted to me many passages she had presided of her youth of the ; gave dresses an account she had of worn the gay and parties of many over incidents which
which rose to her , mind as she told her tale—the , remembrance of her former life evidentlafforded her leasure to repeat . I could see
that the society she y had mixed in was p of a very gay and thoughtless kindthat which a g girlleft much to herself _,,
was not likel , y to among make many permanent youn friends , . She was very young when her position was entirely changed
propert by the y rather to his sudden children death , dy of ing her worth father £ ; 40 he , 000 left which , in however money had , hitherto , a which large
was divided among them . But the protection shielded them was gone , and _« gay , thoughtless , and improvident , MrsD soon fell a to one of the many fortune-hunters
who . are on the look-out prey to provide for themselves a life of idle pleasur The e successful by reaping candidate the benefit for of her others hand ' toil was . a young medical
man in the neighborhood , whom she had occasionally met at
222 Annals Oe Needlewomen.
222 ANNALS OE NEEDLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/6/
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