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A3SNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN. 335
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» Chapter Iv.
answer ; she then wrote to the school , and received a letter in reply , stating * thatas they had disgraced themselves , their mother and
relations disowned , them , and that it was useless to reply . They had made their bed and must lie upon it . In trouble and alarm they
went on selling * one _thing after another till all their clothes were gone . Then it was that the elder sisterI fear , naturally bold and
, independent , plunged into crime to avoid starvation . She , however , kept her resources a secret from her sister , was away sometimes for
days together , pretending to be at work , leaving Anne to get on as she could .
. One evening on returning home she met the youth , the brother of the lady who brought her to me . She had been introduced to
him by the German some weeks before ; indeed , he had accompanied him several times to the first lodging when they were there , to spend
the evening . Anne appealed to him , and told him her story ; the young manmoved by the tale , provided her with food and money ,
testifying his , horror at the treachery of the German who had hitherto been his friend ; he declared he would find him out , and
undertook , till something was done , to pay her lodging . In the meantime Anne was surprised one day by the return of
the German , who had found out their new address . He pretended to be sorry for the _qiiarrel , inquired for her sister , and said he was
determined to reconcile them to their friends again , but that circumstances had occurred in his pecuniary prospects which rendered it
impossible for him to marry . Anne replied , if he would do so now she would not ; he immediately took advantage of thismaking her
, return all his letters , which till then she had carefully kept , and again he took himself off . Anne also told me of a final scene she had
with him , which I could not quite make out ; it seems she followed him one day into the house of a lady whose daughter she heard he
was going to marry , telling the lady how he had deceived her , and warning her daughter , who was in the room , against him , while the
German abused her in return . However , the end was that the poor irl was foundas I have before statedby the lady whose brother
had g taken up the , case , and brought to , our institution . When I took down the particulars of this history from Anne—not 1
believing , I must confess , one ' quarter of it—I asked her what letters she had to . prove the truth of her representations with regard to her
mother / the school , & c . She replied , she had bundles , but they were in a box at the lodgingand till the rent was paid she could not get
, at them—the landlady having seized this box . I gave her the money , and had the letters pat in my hand . There was no mistake as to
the stateinents _' made , so far as her friends were concerned ; dates and addresses were given . I wrote to the schoolto her motherand to
, , one or two other relatives . From some of theni I received answers to the effect that the sisters were the people they represented
themselves to be ; but that their conduct had broken their mother ' s heart _,
and precluded any notice being taken of them by their friends .
A3snals Of Needlewomen. 335
A 3 _SNALS OF _NEEDLEWOMEN . 335
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/47/
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