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THE VILLAGE SHOPKEEPEB. 177
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walls was arrived l . eft just Mr nex . Stoug t as da the y o t f last on th ' s e stack mind comfor of never table chimneys thoroug dwelling fell hly in w recovered , and blac all k f ened that rom him that it he
t would he shock have , and felt perh severel aps it the was awf w ell degrada for tion of bein was g shel so , as tered bu in t the kep shop t whimper -house . in As childishl y it was he I did am not ruined appear ! I am to notice ruined it !" ,
g y , would This have appe i ared ined after he all had to be overbuilt nearer himself the truth and th had an been any one too
roud to ret renchso ; that he constantly exceeded * his income . p Benton occasioned _' s was by the heavil , fire , seemed mortgag ed comp , and lete now his th ruin e grea . i But t losses Miss his
Denny daughter ' noble a home re . ven She ge did broug no h t t her w cl ith ear g j ivi udgmen ng h t , b usiness to bear his affairs
habi she ts ersuaded , and u him ita t l head let t f or fi farm gures at , " Benton ' s upon to a neighbour- ; p tnumber of his
in and g , to farmer ell the who remains wished of to his increa stock se he she showed him how acres by ,
land strict economy " s And then he m cousin ight even Stoug tuall ht on pa ; , " y off t used he burden to add s , u we
and c wil ou Mr l sin t , rebuild . S M talk toug aria t he ( t on hou his a , l way se affair led t s ca ge f s l t her w b l t y h and , he her so go h w and as ) begun t he live pro g there rea di to g t y consider est . " wisdom pleasure his ,
abou of his t life a ; over in fact fter , t her he fi societ reMary y became and George a necessi invited ty , and him when to
share their year home in London , , he re l fused . iMiI should
" ' Nono" said he u I cannot eave cousn ara , never M know , , a _|) out h how dis , tressed my business for she went felt on that if I it did was . " her duty
to cheer ary her father ' s old age , , but Miss Denny laughed away her scruples . . h to doand would rather
take _" You care see of , cousin dear , I had Stoug ht t enou than g read , Madame I de Sevigne without hel . " " Besides" she added proudly , I earned
tn sing y money le women your myself have p , and the advantage have a ri , ght of to the spend married it as ones I lik in e that . We . "
eave " " Be I us am quiet old sure maids , my that love that George , " one broke — consol " began in ation the Mary livel . Of . y little cours think e lad in y , all " els and e
we nay she are has do -much worse to get -to for it -be in herself p a itied shop ; than thoug _!" ¦ earn h , for her my own part living , I , even a woman though
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The Village Shopkeepeb. 177
THE VILLAGE SHOPKEEPEB . 177
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/33/
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