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THINGS IN GENERAL. 367
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¦ - ** Pass on , I pray you . Wliat have you to say to the Story- ?" fice I . F I . positivel " Why , that shrink I am when rather I tired see of a that hook eternal ox _^ ening subject * with of every sacri _^ _-
.. y prospect of comfort for hero or heroine , I know what is coming "! If for she I has know a younger that the sister author or a is disreputable preparing " brother with a I grim close the deli volume ght , an ,
altar whereon the heroine may sacrifice herself , , and _generally her lover tooSacrificeno matter whno matter who ; at one time , as in
the . Battle of , Life' the heroine y , cleverly continues to make herself wretchedher lover , wretchedand to leave her father and sister and
friends in , a state of miserable , suspense for twelve years as to her fate create ; but Aunt she is Anne singularly in thi luck s story y in of the 'Ri amount ht or of Wrong affliction 1 / can she onl can y
make . herself and her , lover unhappy ; and g perhaps , like Bertha in the Laneshe will be content with self immolation alone . But
there are , limits even to that duty ! Then mothers on their death-beds seem to have a perverse delight in laying the first stone
of their daughter ' s misery . Who cannot predict the result when a younger "I agree sister with is solemnl you , it y is commended fatal ; a m to atter an elder of inevit sister able ' s care statistics ht !" !
wanted But we to shall call see your hy attention the next to numb a passage er whether in the we ' Stroll are ri throug g . h I _law Boulogne for schoolmasters . ' This extraordinary in France remark to flog is made their . pup 'It ils is against and even the
, of their parents beings offspring are in creation restricted . Consequentl sun in dfrom the y infliction never the boys suffering of become wholesome corporal the most chastisement pain riotous themselves set on _^
, they grow frightfully indifferent about inflicting it on others' Shades of I modern F" On philanthrop that notion ists , we what must heresy justif is hang here ing !" and the torture ,
and . many . a principle and practice wholly y discarded , by modern civilisation . I don't think that suffering pain makes anybody more
disinclined to inflict it , unless they have previously reached a very hi things gh deg they ree did of tenderness in the old . times I sometimes and find try it to utterly realise the impossible horrible .
Putting people in dungeons for instance , ; how did those who gave the ordereating and _dunking and sleeping afterwards .
What were s go the on jailers made of _^ who took down the bread and waterthat their nerves were not shaken to pieces by the despairing
faces , , the despairing voices , of those whom they left below . Do you remember the wonderful ictures in Monte ; _© risto ?"
going " Perfectl on in y : many and parts we must p of the not world forget at that this the very sam time e things , and are in
countries where the knout , the bamboo , and the stinging whip , are by I no . F . means " And unknown that the . " reigning authorities are almost always
elegant , well dressed , polite as Parisians . " _"
Things In General. 367
THINGS IN GENERAL . 367
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/7/
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