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LIESE ; OR , THE PROGRESS OF WORSHIP . A TALE .
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{ Continued from p . 161 . )
With a happier state of the conscience came greater activity of body and mind . In a few months , it was not enough for Liese
to saunter by the river side , or meditate in the fields for a certain time every day , and to go through the stated offices of devotion in her chamber . In proportion as grief retreated , ennui encroached : and this ennui was attended with no small portion of shame ; for Laura—the lost , the heretical Laura—was free from this visitation . The zeal of this reformed family led them to read all the
works of the reformers that they could obtain ; and their studies supplied them with a perpetual flow of ideas , banishing the dulness which had till now brooded over the interior of a German home . Hour after hour of every day did Liese hear the steady voice of Laura reading to her mother , interrupted occasionally by exclamations , or subsiding into a pause , to allow of a reference to Martin ' s bible .
* If they would but read something that I dare listen to V thought Liese ^ as she sat at work by herself . The same idea had occurred to Laura ; but the difficulty -was to find in those days any book which the orthodox and heterodox could and would read together . The proposal was , however , made on both sides , consulted about , attempted , and very soon given up . The readings were broken off by disputes so often , that in order to
preserve peace , which was equally the wish of both parties , the plau was relinquished ; not , however , before the question had been asked why Liese should not study for herself . Here the accomplished Laura was ready and fully able to assist her friend . It was no disgrace to Liese that she could read little , and write not at all . Few nuns could , and fewer women in any station were so cultivated as Laura .
Helena was invited to join the party , and a considerable time was devoted each day to books and papers . The ci-devant nuns read apart , and a frequent intercourse of notes exercised them in their new accomplishment , in which they advanced with all the rapidity which might be expected from persons of active minds who wanted an object .
* You read more than I , Helena , and you write better by far . Is it because you are younger , or have greater talent ? And you enjoy books more than I , which I wonder at , because they are almost my only pleasure , while you have many , —your bees and your garden , and old nurse Bojirla to take care of . ' I was going to say / replied Helena , * that I get on all the faster for having 30 many other things to do ; and 1 enjoy books
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/23/
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