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178 A LONELY CHILDHOOD.
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Wan Causes T Of Of Unkindne Sympathy Ss ...
to a day school for two or three months , and I can well r could ecolle possibl ct my stri be ving like in I vain knew to that picture it was to my a number self wha of t children a school
my such collec imag an ted as ination t semblage og y ether was , bu utterl . t I h went aving y at never a t in ss yet to concei fear been v among e t he na children ture held of _,
aloof from all ( and . Ialas ! , had not ray like Charlotte yness Bronte , a sister to cling to ) , soon , becoming in consequence an ob f ject o t f
general persecution , for children seldom remain long indiferen school to thing a ne to gav w lik comer e me e , v but ery amongs little soon t trouble beg them in , : to and when dislike if or they how . The cannot I had business learn find t t t to of some read the
-I any know impression not , for , t he t process this accomp had no lishmen t cost su t f had ficien long t effor since o l been eave acquired , and my earliest recollections of learning in the are shower , that I
drank it in as the summer parched earth sucks . this But if I ticul could ar sa did tisfy not the tend prin to cipal increase ( and perhap popularity s my succes ) s lay in
relations par with my schoolmates was so unsatisfactory my , I feeling , - nothing but terror of them , and they nothing t but dislike for
r p me emedied leasure , as t ; thi and cau s s before e thoug me a h sufficient in all e prob pa period in abili than had ty the time elapsed oher would for gav me e have me to
gen assimila I solitariness became tler affe te a a ct t of , home s , lete w not it . so Here the much to r , wit t another , as h I a no w cat as object passion again or dog to or and cal bird o l v was ed forth to to filled love , the the ,
pprey , with of terror a general I recall fear with of ev special erything vividn and ess everybod Living y . One in a source quiet
. not neig even hbourhood a suburb , then it reckoned was considere quite out d safe of London to send , me thoug for h d now ail y
not and exercise long littl to e before traffic walk I . up began , About a long to street midway fear that where stood this there great a ch were ur buil ch few , d and ing crossings it mi was ht
fall down just as I was passing . At first I merely took care g sto walk on the opposite side of the road , but soon perceived this
was equally unsafe , for from the height of the tower , I saw that it would assuredly reach far enough in its descent of to crush me
still . I , therefore , always passed it at the top . my speed , pace beginning till far to beyond run long . M before y mind I reached , from the it , nor time slackening I left home my ,
panic began was was it full -stricken to till of find I the had peace fli dread passed ht , consoling of that it this the for fearful second that myself day portion , time while at on least of panting my my the return passage peril after that , was nor my I
past and . intended And this for was the g , a benefit walk s of upposed health to be and a beneficial which therefore exercise ,
my ,
178 A Lonely Childhood.
178 A LONELY CHILDHOOD .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/34/
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