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    ANNAI.S OF NEEDLEWOMEN. 329

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    » Chapter Iv.

    To _suoh parental neglect I fear must be traced tlie following sad history Tliey peculiar came of circumstances two under young my g . irls notice Sad , the indeed daug within hters was the of the last a deceased position two years clergyman in which under .

    they rendered were them found as _, s far adder as the still elder the was unavailin concerned g result ; althoug of the h I assistance trust our

    , almost Society was ) in the strumental brink of in crime savin . g the Well younger indeed sist may er the from stale ( I , may

    ofttheir quoted history remark say , for , that a more " truth comp is stranger licated story than of fiction folly , " , romance be applied , and to

    misguided trust in others , cannot well be imagined . called My interest me one was morning first excited premisin in g their her interview behalf by by a stating lady who that

    " she feared upon the story she had , to tell was so improbable I should scarcelcredit itbut at the same time she had herself good

    grounds y for believing ; its veracity , and she hoped I would take the case into consideration . " Mrs . D then proceeded to tell me that

    some weeks before , her brother , a youth of eighteen , had begged her to him to see two young ladies wh . 0 were in the

    accompany deepest poverty , and whom , he said , he had often met at a friend's housebut who were now in lodgings not far off . After some

    the explanation apartments , , in which out of he his owned small that salary he as was a clerk himself but pay gave ing his for

    , sister the assurance ' that both the young ladies were of undoubted respectabilitshe consented to go ; not thinking it

    at all right that her brother y , , at his age , should thus install himself as protector to two girls , although , from her knowledge of

    his charactershe was convinced that he was thus acting from pure charit , y . Mrs . D found only one of the young

    ladies at home , and requesting the young man to leave them together by representing , she hoped to the at lad once y that to show their put her an position end the to having the acquaintance come for to her the

    knowledge , she had called to impossibility , sake of the good name of both parties , that her brother could continue to act as their guardianand to beg them to leave their

    present quarters at once . She also , offered to render them any assistance in her power to seek out their friends . The young

    to girl feel , whom nmch we the will awkwardness here designate of by her the position nam , e and of Anne cried , bitterl seemed y

    when her visitor made personal inquiries as to where her friends resided . She first replied that she had no friends—none in England ;

    then owned that she and her sister had run away from school , though that she she would would not do say anything why or for from her living whence if . she She would told Mrs only .

    hel and p had her to no employment she ; but hoped as th her ey friend could not ( Mrs go . D to the ' workhouse s brother )

    would not break money his , promise to take care of them until they could

    get some situation in which to earn an independence . During

    Annai.S Of Needlewomen. 329

    _ANNAI _. S OF NEEDLEWOMEN . 329

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/41/