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A LONELY CHILDHOOD. 177
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Wan Causes T Of Of Unkindne Sympathy Ss ...
parents devoted , to or the whoever child as may to fill make their it comp place letel , are y a so companion exclusively ; lack of associates of
under for a similar this such may age circumstances go , thoug far to h compensate it will the advantage never for entirel the is often y do not so ; so indeed much ,
to that the the chil same d suffers extent less . , But as that even it does this not substitute feel the for suffering more obtainedit
in appropriate my case , for companionshi my experience p is not is that always of a lonely child , nor . was Yet I
me was were not and companions an besides only one for I , saw but each but my other little broth and of ers , them took years but for older th little ey than were notice mys earl elf of y ,
sent ; from , homeas _^ most boys are , while I , was kept at home _, disadvantage as most girls should which , be no ; but pains in my were instance taken , the to p counteract lan had thi of _&
cares leaving absorbed Both me in wholl business , had y been without ; my members mother society equall of . M large y y fath devoted families er was to comp household and letel their , y
their personal . treatment experience of me therefore ; but even was so their far useless general as experience to , regulating , as childnatureseemed
thoroug having vided them hly me forgotten selves with been suitabl or partakers e unap food plied and of , a raiment that - when and , they tasks had so my
had pro been duly set and their completion exacted , , they thought provide apparentl that their any y duty never recreatio to -occurre me n had or d any to been them societ amp that y ly for fulfilled it me was . , and Caring requisite the little idea to
for it . themselvestheir acquaintances were few ; and it with happened families that consisting these , were of boys all either onlso unmarried that for , years childless during , or
my early life I never knew what it y , was to speak to another child of own sex . Of relationsnot many survivedand
with these my there was no intimacy ; , but when , on one or , two occasionsI accompanied my mother on the formal visit fora
few I cousins felt hours myself just , , paid that to be at the something interval connection s of so many mi different ght months not from be entirel other to a y famil children broken y of , ,
that for I I knew shrank nothing away of from their my way young s or how relatives to join and in their their games play- , matesas beings with whom I had nothing in common . They
were naturall those unto , kindest y deemed me ones as rne sisters , who unsocial ; when nor and as we X soon came then left tog was me ether could to mys in they after elf , even well life
do otherwise . _> , , it it expedient When was according I was that about l I y should announced five year partial s to old ly me , leave famil that home y circumstances I for was a short to be time made sent ; ,
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A Lonely Childhood. 177
A LONELY CHILDHOOD . 177
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/33/
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