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26 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.
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of an oak around which she would entwine herself like the tender willing luxuriant that ivy . they Peop should le calle do d her so "; proud but ah and ! with haug lorious what hty . star wondrous She which was
humilit must at y som would e time she bend shine b in efore her the horizon high and : an g ideal hero rich in kind deepest ifted wisdom too , in with talent every and qualit intellectual y of knightl acquirements y heroism , a of worth every y
strugg ; ler g for , the , freedom of the Fatherland . house When and , after her mother such dreamy asked her and to lonel see y after walks the , she returned eror received to the supp
her with , a sigh over the thoughtlessness of her brother , , who had just sent home his linen the day after the washingElise
would smile compassionately like very a " goddess in the clouds , over such small matters . Should she ever be a wife , she would show
how it was possible to direct a household without being contamithe nated woman min by , d of of its simp her details le daug e . ducation hter The had mother and taken sound was so understanding a hi hear gh a ty fli , g good ht , ; and -humoured but she drawn since felt
after it the ever increasing admiration of her father , herself more and more thrust into the background , and might have become intimidated and embittered , if the tenderness of her son which
Elise had not listened compensated to the inions for much and . remarks The patient of her smile mother with when she ventured to express them op , annoyed her more than the most , decided when she
contradiction would have done . It made her silent : and how noticed arrangements contemptuousl the sli which ght y estim generall she ation turned y belong in from which to every in the which Elise one duty held she who of a all laced could woman the herself not , littl and be e
included whenshe in noticed the higher how circle her of daug beings hter held herself amongst p their , acquaintances , , as if she felt herself ,
* ' Amongst _larvse , the only living mind , " heed she sig lest hed he thoug fall htfull " Elise y : " was Let him cold who and thinketh indifferent he to standeth the societ , take y
. and attentions of all the gentlemen who moved in her circle . In her common-place book it was written :
" _Nei Ein mal mem nur H , docli erz zu dann seines zu keiten . H Lust errschers und dauern Qual Wah , l ,
Und sein Keich wird Ewig . " And the master must come . Her brother had gone to the
Univer-Professor sity . A hi in ghl Jena y esteemed and this relation decided of the the parents family to had send been him appointed thither .
This separation was , very painful to Elise , but correspondence with her absent brother afforded a new source of interest and delight .
The active , intellectual life , which then , excited by the highest
desire minds , for made release its way from under the forei all gn poli yoke tical ; oppression hope for the ; the future increasing of the
26 Constancy Misplaced.
26 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/26/
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