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CHANCE ENCOUNTERS. 181
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their But emp the ty very home fact . of all this being so patent notice makes one th feel as if
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up woman , It and is difficult taking most of leave to the look passengers of an rustic ugly and , were vul a gar snob seated , stup at , id the looking same I saw time fellow a country but . he
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walland covered her face wi , th , her apron . Her hard-working , sunburnt , hands and her worn facewith more lines in it than I fancy
her age warranted for thi , s told wretched me of fellow strugg , ling to spend days and at the toiling cabaret nights ; and to
now and earn , he money after was all going , some , and prospect , if anything of better , I suspect pay in was the rather country laborious pleased had ari to sen be ,
freed " What from fo the ols silent women reproach are ! " I of said her to loving myself * and —and not for presence the first .
rious time in my life known —as I onl looke to women d at him she and had wondered surrounded by this what wretched myste- ,
stupid process brute , with a halo y that transformed , him into a hero—no , ject into something of something her from existence ' mor her e . pocket than At last a hero lace I saw to it in her her his , le — ad hand into him . the aside He one had , and aim the drawing and grace
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Chance Encounters. 181
CHANCE ENCOUNTERS . 181
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/37/
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