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fitting riekk * to eirfs—of * ju < Jgmenfe that eoMtd ^ dfefcefit , a Jiairt that conW prompt to ^ oatimwd p ^ r ^ everattee in ^ cxnwse of dwintwested exertion fo * tW , gbad j ^ ff tgfe ^ jt / EHtn wlw « n Orphan . At tto time of which I ^ ak shchwfcs e igh t Jrtoi my * £ riior , >— -I * bay of tori * , she a fall # rown w * wtoatyi * s it « eenMd to me , of eighteen . ¦ HW ^ areat * had died when ah * was < juiie > y « upg . Sh e * had the eves of an orphatt j ^ ttee * * was a Btrong power of self reliance chastened by a Blight fchade on the browt from the melancholy circumstances whieh had caused it * necessity .
Added * to tbwfehfe tiad to endure the increasing irritability df Mtes Aihiey ' a temper * I well remember how , whtn instances of this would occur , she would firmly fix her lips , in the determination not to utter aught that she might afterwards repent , and how the veins would swell almost to bursting in her forehead , till she could endure no longer , and would leave the room to go to her own chamber arid weep . Often have I tried to comfort her as I best could , and then die would part my hair and look in my eyes , and say , Dear boy .
will you not strive to subdue your angry feeling when you see themisery it is l&eiy to inflict upon others ? ' and then she would go oat to her flowers , or if it happened to be wet , she would read to me , and talk ovar the books she read , and tell me tales of noWe deeds , and henyea would flash , and her cheeks become pale—and she would seem to me the being of whose heroic acts she was the proclaim ©? , Then sbe would forget all , and she would sit with her head on he * hand , as if
she were dreaming awaken-not for long—she would suddenly start from her reverie , and seemingly chide herself for having left me , though but for a moment . Oh , she did indeed open a world to me—4 h 6 world of my own heart—^ and she waa al ways busy with it as she had been with her own garden ; . from day to day she pruned it , as &he had pruned her flowers , directing ail its tendencies , and rooting up every weed that might have sprung up to choke the good seed the had sown . Time
went ony and my home studies were completed . It was decided that I sliould come to London to enter on the study of tlie law . This had long been determined upon , and it had been her care to fit me , thoroughl as she could fit me , for the ordeal it would be for me to pfcss through . At first it gave her uneasiness , but she aftetwards said , * she Wt assured of my having a conscience ; and that it would nut wcrrp hi the trial' . The last day 8 we spent together , we walked and bade good bye
to aM oui favourite haunts ; she told me to think of thrai wh « iv J should torn the busy city , to remember the pleasant times we had spent t o * tth <*; « 4 n * tlni > g- « « for her * mke > bat vmm fc »* Urn * ke f ny d # n P * o& and happnies * , ' Oh , if you continue wore and nobtoixritidfed ) as I * oukt hav * you , Harry , you will turn to th « ee days in the midst of t ^ noise and tumuit of that busy city , and k will be lilro a stroll in our ° ^ wood , irid you will hear tha birda' gong / and th * -brooks' imirmur ,
«* 1 pet haps Kuril ' s , voice telling 3 ml * - — ' and Ellan ' i voice eenld ^ ' pteki the < « est . She oontinwd to write to me r # gulitrlj \ andl IQf ^ arly answered her letters—making them , atf she had' ' requwted , a ^ of jontnal . AU my fauhs ^ aU my follia ^ wm % tag mUttri i and ^« r-waa devout Oatholie more auiaere hv confessions Itnd ' never vai [ " "" ftssicm tatteoded with more salutaty ^ ffedtr Thing » dWI ittit WHfiain S ?[ k tki « « tat 4 » c Serious evonU ¦ occurred on both Mdet W ttfiMoe an •*• alteration ht oar crircomutaaoes ^ Miw Ashtey 4 itf r '* wd ike fcaro *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/53/
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