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    106 MY GREAT AUNT POLLY' S ELOPEMENT.

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    remorse of conscience for former remarks on the defunct ; " yes , my dea abo r de , Clo with rinda us . " hath — " P dep olly ar ! t " ed shoute , and d Mary Samuel is co , Jonas ming to and Da e r up ias , her all le

    in different accents of delight . " I must put up a bed in the apphi room sho ghl uld , y sobb see of Clo her ed rinda my no g more r e e a e t - y grandmothe Here mome n reader t , r under , who , is the appea lette conviction red r to which think that caused more she

    these various emotions : — - " Dear " Sir The , pleasing hope with which my last fulfilled letter closed in the , that event we which might I

    meet at Christmashath indeed been lamentably scarcel honoured y know how father , to hath relate died . Madam suddenl Clorinda at her Dever residence , the in honoured this town wife of of y

    your Yorkand prayed me with , her last breath that I should straightway place that sweet yourself " Madam , young and Dever lady as , the her was roads daug pleased hter are , to somewhat under make your her insecure fraternal poor servant and care the . joint charming executor beauty with

    her next gallants and reputed in week my ; of own this wealth Miss nei proper g of hbourhood Miss person is Mary indeed , , it arriving were have vousl made advisable on the her afflicted morning much that , I admired and myself of I the do of should not Tuesday the seek young bring in to Mary griey ,

    what check decency her . too and natural duty woe requir . e All , but that not is to in stifle our our power feelings is , to or resi extingui gn , and sh our act necessity of wishes the hear ; , and thoug t that a' prop h bears silentl er beh it y uneasy aviour Make to under oneself best the , is stron an liments gest amiable sen to si proof bili r ty excellent of of the the Tightness severe lady ;

    Miss Mary charges me with . her my affectionate comp duty to her you brother ; and I am , with great truth , dear sir , your sincere friend , " John Chiselton . "

    he When merel my ejaculated great-grandfather * ' Clorinda had was finished a worth the y reading woman of and this not letter bad ,

    looking ; y " to which , my great-grandmother replied that she never had been able to see the latter fact , though the former was unusualonlbroken

    by doubted whispered ; and beauty then comment and the dinner s manifold from my proceeded three little much as a great as laymate -uncle , . s on But y Poll after y ' s

    the vivacity dinner capabilities my , great- of grandmother , the le-ro instituted om powers and began a severe such p investi a scrubbing gation into and

    dusting and hanging-up app of curtains , as had not been seen for many a day in the old house doubtless in the hav market-place . from this littldo

    mestic My reader isode will that the father e of comprehended Mr . Zephaniah Dever had e re- - married ep in his old and that his wife and widowMadam Clorinda

    Deverof Yorkhad age just , died , leaving her young , daughter , aged fifteen , years and , eleven months , to the care of her middle-aged this

    stepbrotherthe mercer in Burchester . No trifling charge upon the shoulders , of a respectable citizen . Miss Maryor Polly as she

    and was was more even generall considered y called to , was rival the the acknowled beautiful ged and , belle elegant of York Lady ,

    Selinawhose father , Lord Ousedale , was the great man of the ,

    106 My Great Aunt Polly' S Elopement.

    106 MY GREAT AUNT POLLY ' S ELOPEMENT .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/34/