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172 THE VILLAGE SHOPKEEPER.
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was many that years of a middle fore m -aged y time woman , and , my and firs cer _t tain recollection ly one of of the Mari most a
popular persons in the village . The Deephamites in fact were wh all i ch roud the o commercia f their thri l vi traveller ng clev s er sho ssed pkeeper on , h and er w the ere f eulog reuen iums tl
repeated . " Such a capital jud ge of up goods , and a sur q prising y head of a farthing for figures in ! no Bless time yon . Then , sir ! she she' is ll calculate so punctual to the and fraction exact
matter her orders . I should are alway not s wonder ready , now and if she paymen has saved ts t a for little that ,
something . " , snug trious " So she she is oug and ht , one " breaks can always in a customer trust her , " goods think but how then indus to
be sure she was , a lady born . " ; with " Don a wink 't you for think comin you from have Town hit it I h " e considers turns the lie has mercia more l g
enlightened , views on the matter of birth , . was It the was pretties always a t gr as eat well treat as to the me liveliest to be sent part to of the the shop village , for it
row ex standin panded of limes g as itse it th lf did rou int where o h which sma tlie ll the street green steep , . if red Here stree roof t too it and could grew the a two goodl cal bow led y , ,
Miss windows Denny , ded ' s i ho ca use ted g sh one pec c ti heeri vely ly . to Before grocery this and in fine drapery weather , of
to a knot be seen of idlers the was chaises generall which y collected had broug . ht There the too wives were of often the
nei Stoug ghbouring hton ' s pretty farmers little , and , most frequently of all , Mary
Mary Stoughton ! what pony a . beautiful , what a charming girl she was ! her father ' s onlchildand the wonder was how she
came to be his at all . Darwin y could , not have accounted for it was by any a mild theory inoffensive of " Natural woman Selectio Mary n was , " for much thoug more h her than mother that
gentleness and and possessed the joy , and and intellect grace deli . g She and ht of was warm , Miss the affections pride Denny of ' , s the as hear well country t , as to beauty round whose , , , affection
place It was of the strange Mary mother responded how of this whose intimacy warml care y she had , putting had begun been , her for earl Mr almost y . Stoug deprived in hton the . he threatened
went and as he steadil would y along pass , had her , in n on ever her Sundays scan acknowled t brown in ged his silk hooded Maria and as huge chaise his relative leg , as horn she ,
goers bonnet Mary , took without , on a the genuine a raised nod of pleasure causeway recognition in , the amid . society So the it was throng of , the however of excommu church , and - -
conversation nicated " trades of - shrewd _| _Derson , " practical enjoying good the sense curious , and mixture high-toned in her ,
172 The Village Shopkeeper.
172 THE VILLAGE SHOPKEEPER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/28/
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