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CONSTANCY MISPLACED. 21
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covered charac to brown ter . t of h Her drab her sitting clo own th -room t appearance he tables itself ca p : binets clean took , of well the cu -kep cold boards t , f colourless urni wi ture th- _^ p
; , , , thing out dus well t , bu arrange t giving d and no si in gn good that order the room ; there times was was the inhabited no master pipe ; of in every the the
house corner refreshed of the "windo himsel w , f as a witness forgotten that piece at of needlework , showing that no books the wife no , occasionall lantsno ; y , flower worked ou and t of the tted garden by her , husband where indeed ' s side ,
even in summer , p but , few were to be found—lifeless order reigned jus everywhere The t as it was ; dry , it and , seemed lifeless that for as atmosp years if every here nothing thing pervaded had had been grown every dis arrangement turbed in the . room
of the dwellin same g . , The straight borders of the garden were certainly planted every summer with vegetables , under t token he superin of taste tendence and
former p leasure the p ; onl t t or y ' s had in wife the lan , bu borders ted t no the flower lin arbour gered -bed . once gave few the flowers meet , which -place the of
genial friends pas , the p favouri ; te resort of , a troop of high-spirited children , had been long in ruins ; the cour the t before shutters the in house front of
over c the heerless grown house dwellin were with g always rass must like en closed ter a b church ; the and yard back whoever ; door . wished to visit the g y
There was here none of the friendly intercourse which generally makes a parsonage the centre point of the village of . No neighbour
half brin for slipped - g pourin ing leased into wi g th the and out awkward kitchen hal her f-fri sorrows p with oli ht t ened eness her to t apron a o the li fi tt le minister fu offering i ll tself eggs ' s from wife t , as i ; p t s no arsonage mo excuse child ther , , , g
was receive p d with kind words and rewarded with a little present ; no sh the b eyes ridal of pair the presen _j ) astor ted ' s t wife hemsel , and ves lis smilin mother tened g t o her blushin hear to g ty before goo for d
s wi ome shes comfort and kind for advice her ; sick no distressed child . The cold ever , unsym came pathising beg f the ladwhich with the le passed for mere
manners oy , peop haug of the htine commonest ss , had lon sort g ago who repulsed care more their for advances a large dole . Onl than y b for egg the ars
manner of giving crossed it the , , threshold such peop of this le uninviting as had business house . with the
pastor well And -ordered , ever where establishment , then , was the the pastor head , the of enviable this noiseless possessor household of this ? . _,
He fche sat adjoining upstairs ) smoked apartm in his his ent room ci the , , and smoked assistan studied his t ( or p also ipe vicar , and Thu , as st s he udied they is sat called ; and fro in in m
Germany , gar , . , ear until ly mid morning -day , , when when they their were breakfast called was to dinner broug . ht A int cold o their constraint rooms , _, , in the food
rei no gned pleasant at meal surprise -time . ever There interrupted was seldom the regular any change weekly order in j
Constancy Misplaced. 21
CONSTANCY MISPLACED . 21
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/21/
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