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THINGS IN GENERAL. 363
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town . The girl's family was very rich , but Mrs . Armstrong entertained a horror of tradeand never would receive her nor forgive
him . Then the young wife , died , leaving a little daughter whom Mrs . Armstrong never even saw . After this her son came to her
now and then , when she always gave him his bachelor chamber and his bachelor allowanceand there the matter ended . At the same age
, as his father , tKe hereditary disease swept off Courtenay Armstrong ; his little child remained with her mother ' s parents , and Mrs .
Armstrong washed her hands of the whole concern . No mediation of friends could turn her an inch from her own hard view : her son
had married without her consent , and her grandchild had no claim upon her ; it had money , and would do very well . Failing- natural
ties her chief _interest fell on my Intelligent Friend , to whom she had stood godmother when her early playmate , the village rector ' s
daughter , brought her baby to be baptised at the old font . The Armstrong landed property passes to a male cousin , to whom it has
been left by will 3 but the personal fortune , "which is considerable , has no assigned owner , and this it is which hangs pendulous and
vibratory over the head of my Intelligent Friend , on the one implied condition , that she is not strong-minded . Whenever Mrs .
Armstrong condemns any sentiment , she has a way of saying " Ugh , " and must hear it before you can have the faintest conception of
the force you of reprehension she can throw into that small monosyllable . If you had seen her striding over her farms , with her petticoats
tucked up , and a short cloth cape over her shoulders , saying "Ugh " to her bailiff for all his sins of omission and commission , switching
off the nettles witli her riding-whip , rating the old women for stealing dead wood out of the hedgesand vowing vengeance against all
, tranrps whatsoever , you would wonder what other shape a strongminded woman _coiild wear ! But nothing in this world is logical ,
and Mrs . Armstrong less so than most people or things . Furthermore , I must explain her connection with Berlin wool , and
the silken matching of the Princess Royal ' s wedding ring . Mrs . Armshirts strong to 's tapestry ideas on - and fche productions back again to of shirts the female ; and as needle it is no oscillate longer from easy
to find yards of canvas , embroidered with the Death of Absalom or the Entrance of the Animals into the Arkshe naturally admires that
, branch of art which in England has taken their place—tent stitch elaborations of Landseer and Frank Stone . My Intelligent Friend ,
without any eye to the golden pendulum , and being really attached to the obstinate old lady , actually undertook to work for her the
Marriage of the Princess Royal in Berlin wool ; an immense performance , comprising You will ther some efor © dozen not well be surprised known personages if the thread , destined of our for discussion a screen .
was vant occasionall and which y I interrupted shall omit , by touching remarks the apparentl shades of y worsted odd and in a irrele head
of hair , and the number of stitches in a nose . At this particular moment my , Intelligent Friend picked out a needleful of yellow floss silk ,
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Things In General. 363
THINGS IN GENERAL . 363
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/3/
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