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CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS. 241
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ferent ways , " adding that our jpoverine _^ who know nothing but how to knit stockings , are not very attractive reliion companions of the . "
was admiring The , as impression mi as g a ht spectacle be made supposed the upon magnificence , no her very b ck y the her favourable of the g ceremonies one not , for coun in , while espe try
taste appealing cially , " as regarded seen far at better Florence as reli to g her , ious they symp rites stru , athies a simp . as ler Fasting being form " the she of worshi had good in at p
wards first subjection thoug had , so ht but exciting a findin good g an thing that effect , the as as taking tending to produce of to ordinary keep " a sort food of body intoxi after- - lishe
cation more dangerous , perhaps , than that of quor , " altered But whil her op e inion thus in partaking this respect of . unwonted enjoyment among
parin new g scenes for her , in in a Eng deli land ghtful . Her climate father , fresh ' s health sorrows began were to pre fail - , but before
more she and was on . hearing Anxious able to this as do she she so , instantl was news to arrived reach y resolved her that widowed to he return was moth ; alreadv er , she no
for passable had it to was wait until but three the late month middle in the s of spring before January . the Even , journ and in ey the the was alone Al season ps practicabl wer , e for then not e a ,
lady to undertake to traverse Italy and France , was not looked onl on as something but tremendous a comfortable ; but one the . She journ cam ey e proved
howeverto y a a sad prosperous household , and the gloom was soon deepened , by the death , of her dear old correspondent , Mrs . life Mossop , whom
books retired she had , and that loved scarcel she as s a y eldom moth even er went a ; newspaper while out at , the that saw . famil the no Under y one , these im had was provement circum no now new so
stancesit is not to be wondered great in her , health , gained by the visit to Italy , soon gave way to fresh attacks of severe illness , and restorative it was at last influence found of neces that
sary climate for . her She to was seek welcomed once more back the joyously by her old contadino friendsand found even the Italianladies a little improved ,
though , the following letter , dated 1830 , , draws no very brilliant picture of them even , then :
have " Let seen no one ever h of say what that are women the are desperate the bett evils er for of not tittle being -tattle learned ; peop . le I enoug
must ies the talk mind of something it will be , and the think affairs of of something our neihbours ; -and . if I nothing would better wish all occu the - g
advocates p excellence of where , ignorance the ladies to visit knit Tuscany their own , and stockings take a , view and _sp of in it their in all own its
pieces gowns , the and , character hear them of sit their with nei their ghbours knitting in mere or their wantonness spinning at their for and work want tear to of
enoug other h emp to loyment set a whole . Three community or four together ignorant by woman the ears sitting . I again say , Blessed are
Caroline Frances Cornwallis. 241
CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS . 241
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/25/
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