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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 207
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mi times ght have as he become looks across a man , the instead fire- of lace a banker after ! dinner He thinks and sees of it Mrs now . , Smith someasleep , , innocently shaking the bouquet p of pink bows and , Brussels lace that _,
waves over her placid red countenance . " Mrs . Smith wasn't his first love , nor , indeed , any love at all ; but they agreed reasonably well . And as for poor _Nellie , —well , she is dead and
buried , —all that was stuff and romance . Mrs . Smith ' s money set him up isn in business 't romantic , and , and Mrs tells . Smith Smith is a Junior capital not manager to read , and poetry he thanks or novels God , that and he to
stick to realities . " ' This is the victory that overcometh the world , '—to learn to be fat and trouble peg tranquil at the , to same have head hour warm with every fires thoug and day ht , good to imag sleep dinners ining soundl , to beyond han y all g" your night hat , and on the never same to
* But your there are many a people besides or Mr . Smith who . have gained this vicits tory (( grave , The —who fascinating the have structure strang Mr of led sT their their whose life hig , her the life nature better is a whirl to and keep between buried it down it ball , and . and built opera over
point-lace , diamonds , and . schemings ., of admiration for herself , and of estab- , lishments that proud for worldl her daug woman hters , was —there so humbled was a time under , if you the will touch believe of some me mi , when hty
, y , g power She thoug , that ht she she actuall could five y thoug in a ht little herself , mean capable house , of on being no-matter a poor -wh man at- ' s street wife , . with one servant , and make her own bonnets , and mend her own clothes , and
she sweep thoug the ht house that Mondays there was , while a man Betty so noble washed , so true , —all , so for good what , so ? hig All h-minded because , him that in to live with him h lace in poverty of life , was to be a guided something by him nobler in adversity betterpurer , to lean more on
satisfying every , than roug French p laces , opera , -boxes , and even Madame , , Hoget's , best gowns . was " Unfortunatel indeeda y , this of was all common romance self , — -interested there was aims no such and man worldl . There nay
ture , whom , she person had credited very at sight , with an unlimited , draft on all her been better dream , busy nature with with a ; start and the and when realities a laug the of h hour life , and , of and ever discovery feeds since poor has came little desp , she M ised ary awoke asp Jane iration , from who , and sits her
the by her bitter in the tree opera of knowled -box there . , with There all is the no fruit end of which the she i has picked and witti from - cisms which she can throw ge butthis elegant Mrs . T ., on ep peop grams le who marry for love , lead prosy ' , worky lives , , and put on their best cap with p but ink ribbons
for Sunday . Mary Jane shall never make a fool of herself ; ' , even as pair has she speaks credited of whiskers , poor with M from a ary resume an Jane opposite ' drawn s heart box from is d , y which ing her _? within own whiskers imag her at inings the the poor vanishing of all little that fool of is a
T grandest . finds the and _glamotir most heroic has fallen , most on worshi her daug pful hter in man , she . wonders By-and- ; b she y , when has ' tried Mrs . to " keep All novels prosaic out and of all the bitter girl ' s disenchanted way , —where did le she talk get as these if poets notions and novel ?'
-, , peop more ists ma . _^ Wh romance at is romance . They ? do whence —just comes as much it as ? craters Plato spoke make volcanoes to the subject , —no wisely , in his quaint way , some two thousand years ago , when he said and , ' Man it ' s
co soul mes , in to a former that state in , thi was s life winged when and the soared soul among bthe the gods of ; music so and poetry , or pass the , sight , of beauty , , hath her remembrance , y quickened power to , forthwith forth _,
there is a struggling and a pricking pain as of wings trying come , — ago even discoursed as children thus in teething gravel . y ' of And the if romantic an old heath part en of , our two thousan nature , d whence years
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Notices Of Books. 207
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 207
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/63/
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