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A LONELY CHILDHOOD. 179
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Wan Causes T Of Of Unkindne Sympathy Ss ...
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. servant naturall grew weak y at strong that ? And time constitution I who soon was became , suffering my cheek yet from w paled ors a e gathering , and for we my on had limb her a s
idea sensitive every finger of thing , and th imag at . the I horrible ination almost sight , of finger that sicken this at a g even athering mere last I now sim saw so p when it le impressed , felt fester I it recal , after tasted l my how all over it the in in
reality for food , . woul that d rise took continuall possession , y before of me me in , and consequence the utter , which loathing of
course doctor had soon to comp be called leted in the who wreck pronounced of my health my comp . At laint last to , be a
twenty poorness or of thirty blood , and ordered older , the me to verdict the sea mi -side ht . perhaps Had I have been
years , g heard been h of ypocliondriachism a hypochondriac , a child truer ? one Let by it far be ; jud but ged who by ever the it not that
its the foregoing feelings subject , whether , is rather too young than it mi too to ght understand young not be to have heard , or to such of g , ive were feelings utterance . It to is them that ives them
when their in fact inj the the urious nature not intensit being of the y able ; case and to supposes to speak whom of there coul to d th be ey no be g confidant confided ? ,
me For a my hint own of part what , nothing I was undergoing but deliriu . m Once would spoken have of drawn , it would from _,
j doubtless ) laym had ate , it have either to speak disappeare I should of have One d , and of spoken the had worst , I or had more features but probabl one of the y proper have evil
never . was till I that could I knew scarcel it y not endure to be any an thing furthest evil , else and , and was soug left of tL ht in to fu solitude make thest
room it as comp in the lete house as possible was . The favorite nook corner and even . e this r was barricaded with chairsso my that I might shut , myself up more
, entirel With y with change myself of . scene , and the invigorating influence of mental state
of sea also -bre to terrors ezes improve improving and . I at was last my beg bodily various inning health to cir outgrow cum , my stances the broug more ht childish began about
my , , , to an thoug som amelioration h e not degree till of my of acqu my earl aintance position y childhood and , and companionshi was gradually all past introduced p , past with beyon others me d , remembrance of it that
recall their wholl is not y , influence connected and pass leaving away on with me with fear scarcel character the and cause y a suffering sing left that le an produced . impress Nor did them which the , but effects will in , my
probably remain to my life's end .
A Lonely Childhood. 179
A LONELY CHILDHOOD . 179
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/35/
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