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ANKAXS OP NEEDLEWOMEN. 223
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• Chapter Iii. Poyebty Is, At All Times,...
death some of he ttie lost parties no time she frequented in improving . It his appears acquaintance that after and her father shortl ' y s
, succeeded in gaining * her affections . They were married . She must have had few business friends , or they would have taken care to tie
up a portion of her fortune , so as to preclude the possibility of her ever being dependent on others . No such settlement washowever ,
provided , and it was not long- before she discovered the mistake , she had made . The command of money only fed her husband _' s taste for
idleness , and from one extravagance he launched into another , till the soon money dwindled which away Mrs . . Mr D . D ' s father then , had alarmed amassed for the with future care that , , tried his hand at the gamintablehoping with the little sum
remained to redeem their g falling _, fortunes . The result may be wretched had well thoug antici wife ht pated herself ; with ere richl many several y provided years were for children over throu , the gh life to gay , support , was livel a y neg girl lected , d who ,
husband notorious , for his vices young —a gambler , a drunkard . , Many were the f years of wretchedness and sorrow that now became Mrs and .
D _s lot . Troubles of every kind seemed to surround her , her talents had to be turned to account for the maintenance of her of indulhis
childrenwhile her husband lost no opportunity ging course sinful p of , leasures self-indul . Delirium and tremens he was , fin however ally obli , followed ged to be this sent long to gence
a lunatic asylum ; a step , , which though it caused much pain to his of relief in the dail
wifemustin the endhave been a cause y cessation Mrs , from D anxiety , removed and , ill-treatment far from . her old neihborhoodand g ,
. resi children gning . herself Several to she her altered lost in fortune their , infancy devoted . herself At first to her she rolled
received help from her friends and relations , but as years relations on , death are deprived not often her of some ht out , and and distance when of unobtrusive others . Poor and soug
, retiring in the the case gay , of they our and are poor indul soon friend ged lost . days sig Mrs ht of . of D and her forgotten ' g s irlhood former , . positi was Such link nothing on remained now in becam societ but to y e ,
connect a dream it of with the past the , — hard a dream realities , of of which life not she one now endured , save instrument memory ; and that tune memory or melo she dth kep at recalled t alive the by rehearsing events of bri on ghter her y
days and bygone every hours of happiness . Music was a gift of which no to have one contrived could deprive either her by , hire and or amid loan all to her provide poverty herself she seemed with a
piano The of one some she kind now , , to had secure was the certainl indul y gence not , a she first so -rate highl instrument y prized . ; sounds
but that its could keys cheer , when her touched . Its tones by her could hands conjure , had up power the past to emit , and soften the words
the of favorit asperities e hymn of s , the they present seemed ; and to carry as she her softl in sp y irit sang into a future
Ankaxs Op Needlewomen. 223
ANKAXS OP NEEDLEWOMEN . 223
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/7/
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