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    HARRIOT-K. HUNT.-; 3Y9*:

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    America I Have Been With Deep The Ly Lov...

    ofvMte ' children : on a higher plane . It also opened , tome a rich experience in social life . Many of my former schoolmates at this time

    liad no graver employment than muslin work * Of course , we were still on visiting terms , though I had lost some caste by becoming .

    useful . I was struck at an early period , by the selfish , contemptible indolence they indulged inas by the lamentable ennui it occasioned .

    , Living on their parents , like parasites , most of them dwindled away and became uninteresting to me . A chasm Lad yawned between our

    friendships , —for I was at work—they were at play . Our lives had nothing in common . My school was a grand use to me , for it not

    only called out gratitude to my parents for the advantages they had given mej but also for the delight and enthusiasm with which I

    pursued the occupation . I was an enigma to those who had once loeeu school-girls with me . They knew not the magic of usefulness . They

    often 6 all their told time me _^ boasting ! '" ly !— they had ' nothing to do , '—they had

    But we must not linger too long over these early years , changes . were imminent in the quiet Boston family : the first was the father ' s

    death in November of the very year in which Harriot had began . her school . The widow and her two daughters were thus left " lone

    women" in the world ; but the strong sense which characterised the . household now bore good fruit ; there was no confusion , no loss , and .

    the elder one " saw more clearly than ever before how much an early training had to do with our lives , in assisting us to meet the

    emergencies and changes that had come upon us . They opened to me my first consciousness of the great need of women being trained to

    meet business exigencies . " The father had some years before " sent a small adventure to sea for each of his girls ; " it had been gradually

    increasing and now came home . Thus , although Mr . Hunt died at a moment of general mercantile depression , when the navigation .

    business was at the _vexj worst period for profitable settlement , these three women managed to arrange everything in an orderly manner ,

    and to remain in their old house . " I know , " says the writer , " we should never have saved our homestead , had we given our affairs in

    charge to others ; and so I speak from experience . " They found however great help in the friendship of one true and noble man .

    "It was Mr . William Parker , the son of the bishop who married our . parents , " of whom she speaks in terms of the warmest gratitude . A

    part of the old house was let off to another family , a new school-room built in the garden , and the younger sister opened an infant school ..

    So passed their quiet days for two years ; until 1830 , the turning _, point in Harriot Hunt's life .

    In this year the younger sister was prostrated by severe illness , xnd a kind hysician of " the good old school" was called in . lie

    was passed a famil away y p while friend attendin , and he g it was a masonic who , when meeting Mr . , Hunt had come had suddenl himself y .

    ; o break their sorrow to the widow and her daughters . He had , _ilways been " good and true" to these three solitary ladies ; so when

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/19/