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L.—RIGHT OH WRONG ?
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L.—Right Oh Wrong ?
L . —RIGHT OH WRONG ? A TRTJJE STORY . _-- _^———
Jud " Aunt Wa G S Ing Anne She 1 As Tig ...
jud " aunt Wa g s ing Anne she 1 as Tig 's I life do ht ? from will I tliose tMnk to most wlioin against women I have her will g . iven say They yes an whose outline ; while intellect of men my ,
her and devotedness judgment I , oug or at ht pronounce the to rel best y upon allow , her either to be question the victim the of reality a dis of
torted sense of duty , : my clergyman , a man of letters , and the friend of living celebrated authorsadmonishes me against setting up a
, to poor define weak the woman moral as . a Be heroine it so . , of I onl whose know history thus he far challenges : the story me y
whichHeaven knows at what cost to herself , she related to me , did me , goodwoke me from the torpor of engrossing sorrow , and
, it taug is ht that me now a lesson she is a hundred to her sermons rest had for the never sake preached of others . Hence , and gone
desp , ite the harsh opinions above expressed , , I have resolved to write it
. When I first saw my aunt Anne I was a light-hearted bride , brought bhusbandher only sister ' s son , to learn to
love her who y my had young been father and , mother both to him , before we sailed for India . She was the last representative of the I > e Vismes ,
one of the Norman families settled in Guernsey before the Conquest , and dwelt a few miles beyond St . Peter's Port , in a quaint old
country house of Elizabethan architecture , built of grey granite , trees standing from picturesquel whichin y the on Norman a grassy -French slope , studded dialect with once universal fine old elm in
, , , the Channel Islands , the name of the demesne , Les Ormeaux , was derivedThe interior of the house corresponded to its outward
ap-. pearance and , and - Altogether bore the same it was characteristics a fitting home of for dignified such a simp mistress licity ,
with and gay repose the and serenit unthinking y that seemed as I to was pervade , I remember everything being , animate impressed as
well She as rises inanimate before , at me Les now Ormeaux the lad . of the mansion , some three
or four and fifty years old ; , her hair y quite gray , but her tall spare fistill erecfcher dark dress relieved by the snowy muslin cap ,
and gure falling sleeves ; and collar of equal whiteness . In her large oldfashioned drawing-room , with its furniture _belonging to a past
_g-eneration , yet handsome and well preserved ; with its thick Turkey traits carpet and gazing amp forth le crimson in all the curtains bravery ; and of surrounded hoops and powder by famil , y velvet
por-, and brocade , upon the last inheritor of their name , —she looked the realisation of the gentlewoman of yore . I see her as she used
sometimes to sit musing of an evening in . front of the fire , before the
lamp was brought in , while we talked apart in that interval between
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/38/
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