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178 ' THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PIiAISTO"W.
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XXV.—THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PLAISTOW.
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I. She was but nineteen; and nineteen do...
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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
the second . _* More than any other woman of her time , " writes Vasari" with more study and greater grace , she has labored on
and every painted thing , connected from life with and drawing made excellent ; not only cop has ies she , but drawn she , has colored also ,
, drawn many beautiful original pictures . "
( Tote continued , )
178 ' The Misdeeds Of Aura Piiaisto"W.
178 ' THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PIiAISTO"W .
Xxv.—The Misdeeds Of Aura Plaistow.
XXV . —THE MISDEEDS OF AURA PLAISTOW . _& . _* —¦
I. She Was But Nineteen; And Nineteen Do...
I . She but nineteenand nineteen does not calculate chances or
criticise was defects . Besides ; , who could have refused him , handsome , agreeable , fascinating education , as he and was diametricall ? "Were the paltry habits facts of and a
totally different y opposed p princi lishments ples , to an wei obli gh ging against disposition graceful , to and manners be the p , leasant showy that abandon
accomof amateur vagabondism ? Was it expected Aura , young of such , a credulous man as , handsome and impressionable Tom Delane , should because reject there the might love be
, flaws in the perfect fitting of their so diversely moulded lives ? It would have been a heroism of prudence scarcely natural in one so And
i as gnorant for seeking of life , advice and so from careless her father of consequences and mother as , — Aura who , . in this
in prosaic a household world of where ours , ever the husband knew of wore any work a beard -a-day and common a blouse sense , and his debts to his
creditors gave away ; where his money the to wife the dressed milliners poor instead the ancl children of where paying like p all ictures lived , and the
live desp s ised of the g meant ipsies sugge , ? and stion Aura did s of not would know not ; what have regularity heard they much or r in ational -door
counsel snugness from her own people , even if she had asked it , but it never occurred to her to ask itfor the Plaistows had a theory
, about the sacredness of their children ' s individuality , in virtue of whichthose young persons thought and acted for
themselves almost , as soon as they were out of long frocks and leading the educated strings but . A one mode not calculated of education to produce singularl much y deli facility ghtful for to
accepting , or , proneness for asking , advice . It was not surprising then , that Aura , instead asked her of referring if she Tom ld be Delane his wife to should her pax sim 3 a or l
mammawhen he _woj _^ , pyput " Yes _, her Tom , hands I will in , for his , I and like , looking you ; " her up color frankl rather y into deepened his face , , say and , ' ,
her the more heart , beating surprising faster , considering than _tisual " who , but and that what was all they . Nor were was , tha it t her
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/34/
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