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^^ ffaje ^ r ttd hidol haroe wi ^ iMiw ^ Ma ^ rttng ^ j health ' as other evil habits had ^ done wit h h » husbands ; * rtien one day the thought ooeurnwbtb bcr » riiktft « &arfcex > £ airmfceroeTit might W found in advertising for * a comitttttfta ^ the rival <> andidatee ^ ho wou ld present themselves ( none < rf /^ vbieh ahe 1 had any idea of electing ) would , die thoag&tytoiien
* h& 40 it disposed to admit them , afford hfer some entertainment . Aihong the number of dupes and victims to this unfeeliag , "pearhape *« ther ' utithinking manoeuvre appeared Grace Clare , changed * fey-ttfltktixm ; from the joyous gladdening girl to tfeei saddeaed , y » tt « erfeiie , woman . As she entered Mrs . MauFmingV ; drawings monv the heart of Harriet , cold as it was , awakened to , a
momentary ; thrill of feeling . Her mind , vitiated and narrowed as it hnd eyw bee **/ caught some idea of the strange and unseemly cfamge in the fortune of Miss Clare ; but almost immediately the meaner impulses flowing from self-sufficiency stifled pity : ;• the : feeble ipesreeption of the injustice of fortune yielded to a petty curiosity ti / lwiow Grace ' s story and to a paltry sense of triumph from ielding such a being in a dependent capacity about her perrson ^
rrjflpts * Glare accepted the office ; and now , as companion ttx Mrs . Mfamoiiig , was enabled to study a character so fair to the corsoyy i * ftiiiiM& : iruitless of all for which a human being should * exist . Hatriet was a negative , and nothing but negatives emanated fp ^ itn Iwrgiyet were all her proceedings pregnant with the most pagi&ve ingredients of annoyance . , - n > tShe never contradicted her husband in word ; she ne ^ er did
otherwise in deed . Quiet as a calm at sea , she was also as fto-) iroking . It was one of his memorable sayings that her tOTtiMfnt-^ iai ^ ^ Ays wou ld have exhausted the liver of Prometheus ^ * She ^ OMwrerjdirectly refused anything , but as little did she ever decidedly UOTiJpBouaptly grant anything ; indecision was both a principle of
her mind and a habit of her conduct ; she had a delight in pro'l agging evasions and hesitations just in proportion to the impadienci she provoked : was there any eagerness for dispatch , she >^ would ^ cteate delays ; was there a desire for decision , she would jglijjffrot doiibts ; she would keep up expectation just to the point of the icompletion of ^ any t as k ehe might have undertak ^ a to excicptey and then often find some pretext for destroying all that
• be / had done , and deliberately beginning i de n&vo . Jti'aVk iiich tuiaes . bee imrperturbable calmness , her incessant laughter , 6 rspontaneous tears , ever throwing the onus of blame oa the party 1 slie ' tftasborkte&iUi i . ' ,- ' > ¦¦ ' ¦¦ » - i K ~ WiV ) hen Mrai . MajDtAinflr ^ curiosity and vani ty had be ^ u » ruri # ed ' ^ ly iW ^ ih hiiiigUhto M ^ s » , lular ^ g con fidence , and oxhibitiflg her as iiW ^ epewlertt / steiwigbed to sbak « her off ^ perhaps < e * ch «* g ^ her M ^ aWi ^ ob ^ cf ^ aui ^ iuot ^ 'coiig € « iial assocktt ^ ; with this- vifewyttnd with her usual indirectness , she e&doavotmed to ttwk + uMtviMteiiM ^ gUhMo 8 ten » ible cause and instrument of Miss Clare ' s dismis-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/24/
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