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334 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN.
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» Chapter Iv.
_aeco _^^ _nt _, to be about them , I could not deem it possible tliat any two irls would ! have been allowed to leave England in such
circumstances g , without their mother , or some friend deputed by her , if slie could not herself goto see them on board ; but Anne assured
me that no one attempted , to go , and I afterwards found this was true . The young ladies therefore took leave of their governessand
, entered the cab , which was ordered to drive to the wharf , starting ( as their friends believed ) on their long voyage . Is it
possible to conceive a greater indifference on the part of relatives ? By previous arrangement the German met them on their "way ,
entered the cab , ordering- the driver to alter his course and go instead to a railway stationwhere they alighted . The cab -was then
dismissed . Here he left , the luggage at the booking-office , and called another caband making the girls get in drove from one
place to another , chang , ing vehicles , till he finally took them to very comfortable lodgings in a suburb of London ; here they had a meal ,
after which he left them to fetch the boxes , assuring Anne that he Iiad made arrangements for their marriage as speedily as possible .
In the meantime the landlady was authorized to provide them with all they wantedand sinceas he said in partingher sister was with
her , she might be , quite at , ease about her position , . " Even should their non-appearance on the ship be found out" he added" they
,, need not fear discovery , as he had taken such precautions that they could not be traced ; and once married , their friends would soon be
reconciled to them again . " He did not return again till the next daywhen he arrived with the boxeswhich they were glad ta
recover , . Prom Anne ' s account , he treated , them at first with great kindness and respect . They remained some weeks in these
_ajDartments ; but whenever the marriage was talked of , he found some excuse for deferring it . Anne at last got angry and taxed him
with deceiving her , whereupon he told her that he had changed hismind and liked her sister bestand she could return to the school if
, she liked . This led to a very uncomfortable scene with her sister , who had evidently been exercising an influence to prejudice the
German against Anne . A quarrel was the result , the lover took himself off , and did not come back for weeks . The girls were now leffr
to themselves ; they dared not go back to the school or to their mother , and so they had recourse to the usual plan , lived on
theirclothes for some time , paying the landlady ready money for everything , for she would not trust them , ( evidently taking them for what
at that time ] neither of them were ;) even the good stock of clothes did they not had stand had in provided the gap for long their the outfit more , being so as sold the at bills a disadvantage brought into ,,
them were exorbitant . They were , in the landlady ' s power , and they knew it . They then went out for whole days , seeking work
wherever they could , but rarely finding it ; at last the landlady dismissed them from their quarters , and they took a smaller lodging .
It was _henco that Anne at last wrote to her another , but got no *
334 Annals Of Needlewomen.
334 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/46/
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