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    238 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS,

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    considerable After nine improvement months of her unceasing in health pain ; her , and renewed she a attained letter vi , da some ted of

    bod December y h and discontent , mind 1821 , in having shows a very been practical exer exci ting ted - way in . the It appears ghbourhood gour that

    au w muc here thorities her famil a bod y resided of thir , by teen certain or four proceedings teen men of the came parochi to the al y

    housedesiring , to see her father , and when admitted , had behaved t , in th a _having very violen influenced t and the insulting measures manner they , charg disapproved ing the

    folks r and ecor refusing would render to believe them his denial jus , tice asserting , they the would that _" since right gen them tle - - ,

    selves . " Miss Cornwallis thus describes scene : — and of " what Anxious for passed for than , that what half I mi mig ght ht hour sen happen d had for , to succour I had listen followed if to they the proceeded to insolence be within to of violence a hearing set of -

    wretches more whom we had an cherished and fed more than once . _, At last , unableto bear it any longer , and dreading the effect it from might have on my lace mother and _,, I

    if when she heard began what to was going forward made them , I sallied listen to a my hiding itulation -p of what , I

    father they and mother open had on me done , for them ; and when recap at last I made an I my appeal to them generally to speak and say which silence of them and had ever hun known down I I

    their my father heads wrong ashamed a poor 1 man then , there mentioned was a dead mother , reproached they them g with I

    . of brawling themand under bade her them . very bed . -head To , after astonishment all my that she they , had done bowed for civill every y and one I I gomy

    heard departe since d , , bidding that many each profess other themselves as they went sorry out . " not to make a noise . I have- i

    lad ontras The y , in t courageous ed thus trikin confron ly firmness t with ing and the _disj subduing tim 3 layed orous by weakness such this roug invalid of h som vis young it e of , I I I

    made t c nei upon t g hbouring de s their art g p farmers remises ielded , , bribed who a , terrified wh their en invaders similar compliance descen with , to ts food their were or I I I y

    Miss u money nreasonable But Cornwalli it was p demand not s , exerted only of on an herself such increased ex activel traordinary parish y , allowance as occasions far for as . in health that the 1 I I I

    home permitted liest , and tters rendered she could good and servi ce d to do her her paren par ts t , when need m condition 1822 i

    she _ai'ose writes , and — this too when in a very feeble . In tjj

    in " bed I have the not other been half ahle in attending to pursue to my business occupati . on Why , havin should g spent peop hal le f say my that day m m

    women , are unfitted for domestic duties by what is generally termed learning ? ' M than If I these had make not hav up kn loaves been own how and to pies spell loyments and my puddings own and nam then , and e , I in || fry c the ould || eggs evening not and have 1 fish 1 should don , & e c , | m & not ore | c ,

    have yet been abl e e to do my what emp I have done ; —write letters for lawyers , , and draw If lad cases y herself for counsel , who ; may ergo chance , nobod to y is have the sufferer both man by and the woman lady's * learning business but on her the m II I m

    238 Caroline Frances Cornwallis,

    238 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/22/