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270 ' "'-A PLAGE &ALIiE£> WATEMiOO. '*
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night ' s sleep . She had been so unfortunate as never to have cared learned for to in read them , for days as like she often they are said now , — - . " " Young She subsisted girls wer on 'n' t
in trifle mendin from g the and parish tailoring , a stray for gift poor , and nei the ghbours little lucrative , she and could darning earn
furniture of ment stockings whom . Her , at yet she a lod scrupulousl half rents ging penny it was had a y pair cl one ean , by room and no consideratel rneans , neat containing . a The laced good very emp a person l little arge
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about worldly matters , only human _, the expression of _,. was which conveyed always must to cheerful me have an undoubted , been and often in youth g very limpse a full very of of " peace humour pretty within one , and those , . " always had who She a
have largeness travelled of min much d such as or one have usuall had y connects great opportunities with of acquaintance In the course with of societ conversation , y , and — have we made were a unaccountabl good use of y them chatt _. y
Fra that nce afternoon ci France —she " spoke I said of " somethin haven g 't as been bein there g a custom surely in !" you
She gave . a most , undeniable , French shrug , and then , shaking her smile head that , sig onl hed out with old a strange le ever sort of smile a —that leam rare of
y very peopmanage , g been sunshine in France on an , but autumn oh ! it landscape ' s long ago — V " I should love think to I hear had j
" Do tell me about it , Mrs . L . ; you know I anything like a story , —How came you there in ? nice " oldfashioned
She drew herself up , crossed her arms a - , way she had , and began , — tell of lace called
" I dare say , miss , you ' ve heard a p Waterloo Now I » , hate where war there I ' was ve often a battle tried once to . " feel a amount I I proper
. of reverence for the heroes of a " hundred fights * ' without I Eng attaining lish enoug it to h any to experience very great a certai extent n ; strai nevertheless ghtening the , of I Duke my am I I
p him erson self at would the sound have of smiled that word a grim , and approval I believe of my Iron prompt I I response " Waterloo . / 99 heard . of Waterloo . . ' ! of . course I have— -well , I I
I, go on . " my that u little Well battle , baby miss . I in , was my the then first West young husban of Eng , d and lan was living d , a and soldier with I wanted , and my sister he sorel was y and to in I I I at
all go , to and my did husband everythin . M g y to sis dissuade ter wasn me 't , willing but I didn for 't me like to being go I I
270 ' "'-A Plage &Aliie£> Watemioo. '*
270 ' -A PLAGE & ALIiE £ > _WATEMiOO . _' *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/54/
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