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114 FIRST AND LAST.
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poem that Mortimer read in 'In _MemoriamJ c sweet , and ' sweet * again all Kingsley ' s strongglorious food in ' _HypatiaJ she was
, suddenly called away . Mortimer threw down the books in a state of irritation . i
" Would that odious word sweet' were expunged from every young lady ' s vocabularyit is the cloak for all inanity . "
, " Oh , you strong intellects ! " cried Euphemia laughing , " what little patience you have with our feminine weakness , and endeavors
to spell out what we feel . Remember , besides , your greater natural power to be concise and say the fit thing , in opposition to the grace
supposed to be our attribute- _^—remember how much more advantage you have in being always trained to severer modes of speech , while
we are leffc to what taste we can pick up amid our samplers . " Mortimer looked at the sweetness and play of Miss Selby ' s
countenance , he remembered the beautiful and softened glow of thought he had seen mantling there under the high suggestions of the authors
he had just been reading , and he thought Miss Selby at least had not much need of excuse for poverty of thought and expression . But
Eme did not observe the expression of his admiring eyes , she was full of a generous concern for her cousin and Mr . Mortimer . She
had observed that Mortimer unconsciously frightened Julia , and made her seem more of a goose than she was . Julia had some
natural grace of mind as well as of person , but this was stifled by her anxiety to please the irritably fastidious Mortimer . At least
irritable and _fastidioiis to her . Julia would certainly have much more enjoyed Mrs . Hemans , or Moore , but she was not able to do
justice to what powers of mind she had ? while hurried and fluttered by Mortimer .
" Mr . Mortimer , " said Miss Selby at last , with some hesitation , "do you know I am thinking myself old enough to give you a piece
of advice . You must be more gentle to us poor women , you frighten Julia ; now she would not have called everything ' sweet' this
morning , if you had not so hurried her by your grand , impatient ways . Remember we are like children and require time and
tenderness . , Mortimer sat full of thought for a momentthen stepped into
, the conservatory , and came back with a splendid , queenly , white noisette rose with its fine delicate spray , which he presented to Miss
to Selb understand y . " Let , and this a be heart our to seal be , obli dear ged Miss for Selby your , hint that . I have You won sense 't
refuse the seal ?" " No , indeed ! oh , what an exquisite rose ! so pure , so sweet , so
refined . " " Yes , I picked it out on purpose for you , only care and
cultivation could produce such a rose . Now compare this with a wild rose "
. Euphemia took her precious flower to her own room , selected the
most delicate glass , and filling it with sparkling' water , put the rose
114 First And Last.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/42/
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