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84 LIFE OF MARGARET EULIiER OSSOLI.
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in ¦ was company shortand with . after Mr . and visiting Mrs . many Marcus of S our pring most *; her interesting stay in Eng literary land
contrived characters , to , and lose , scrambling herself for one as far whole north ni as ht Ben to the Lomond intense , wher horror e she oi
g her she friends crossed , and over the to great Paris danger from whence and discomfort she proceeded of her own to person Naples , ,
and afterwards visited Rome , Florenceand Milan . From the Italian towns she , wrote incessant , letters to her friends
_jDondents at home . " She and says in another in one of lace these we that find she that has she " a devoted hundred an corres entire
munication day in each , with week them , while . in To p the one north who knows of Ital and y , to love keep s that ing up glorious comwould create
land long , the ing fragments for the whole of her letters Few travellers given in have the memoir visited , Italy so well
a . prepared have felt it by to previous be so trul culture home from . Infinitel books y , touching and few , from of alien Margaret blood y
Fullerwho had worked so hard from her early youth , who had been teacher , writer for the periodical press , and care-taker for a
family of orp , han brothers and sisters , is this fragment of a letter to Emerson .
' or three free from care and forced labor ¦ Destiny would " Nothing heal will all not less my grant than hur two ts , and that ren I ew hope years my she , life will -Mood not at leave its nie source long . in Since the ,
¦ world without , for strength I am tired to swim of me keep . I ing siioul , myself d like up to in go the to water sleep , an without d taxed be born corks a , ' gain and
into ceived '' Ital a state the y lia full where s been benefit my glorious young of the to life vision me should , and . In there not Home be have prematurel I have been known hours y in some which . blessed I re- ,
great quiet days thoug _, when hts and I could memories yield myself of the to lace be soothed , But those and instructe days are d b swiftl y the y
p . fu passing ture . and Soon none I to must hel _"fte me gin if to I exert am not myself prudent , for there to face is this it . incubus So ridiculous of the , p
toothis , mortal coil—such , small tilings . was , no I find false how instinct true , was that the said lure I mig that ht ten always here find drew earlier an me atmosp ! towards here , Europe to life develop must . It
me be a in failure ways I so need much . Had strength I onl has y come been wasted years on abstractions _$ _Tow , my which only came because , I grew not in the right soil . However , it is a less failure lias than
with , most hand others . d , chances and not in worth store thinkin and I g can twice live about a great . Heaven deal in the years room that enoug remain , . " goo ,
On the Italian lakes , Margaret met with some high-born ladies : * Duchesses little the , marquises traces of , these and the famous like . hist * ories * * also It is these rather ladies p leasant take p to leasure come
in a leasant " telling The on . life me These here of sp on heres the le so lake have unlike is precisel charming mine , y and what villas ; do we it and , once well gardens . imagined on as the being lake so , peop
p adorned with fine works of art . They go to see one another in boats . You wild can be flowers all tlie time climb in a the boat mountains , if you like . I ; have if you been want here more for some excitement time , and , or
return shall stay to Home a , week you , seeing longer many . I have tilings foun by the d soft way repose .. " here . _JSTow , I am to
84 Life Of Margaret Euliier Ossoli.
84 LIFE OF MARGARET _EULIiER _OSSOLI .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/12/
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