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    ELIZABETH VON RECKE. 167

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    pression to everything . Having that could been accustomed beautify and to elevate all the joys lifeshe of sympath was now y and

    im-, mured in dull solitude in this old robber-hold , and even when as a rare favor the sight of a friend was vouchsafed , it was but this a show

    ration of intercourse from all , for she her loved spirit , was she still soug held ht the imprisoned more eagerl Wieland . In y the silent sepa earl

    character companionshi works , Young were p 's the of Ni books g cherished ht Thoug ; and solace hts Gellert , and of _, other her Neander lonel productions , hours . of Throug ' s similar h y y

    the consolation these afforded her she rose to that elevation of spirit , which , resigning the joys of earth , turns calmly to heaven and

    ceninduced the tres production there her its to hopes attemp of a and woman t exercising wishes , made . her A much hymn own impression talents of Juliana in h upon ymn Fleming writing her ' , s , and as ;

    but sible thoug she could h she not endeavored entirelconceal to keep it this , and pursuit it exposed as secr her et to as fresh posy

    , ridicule After and three mockery years thus . spent in silent patient suffering , an event of her hard

    fate occurred ; she which became seemed a mother to promise , thereby some acquiring affections amelioration an object But fresh on which trials

    were she mi in ght store freel . y She lavish had her pent ht carefull -up to conceal . the misery of husband sougy to _accusations

    her married lifebut her now began bring love against for her him , comp and , laining of her propensit loudly to y her for grandmother reading * . He of knew her want that he ol

    __ had so " busy worth onl ing y y too themselve and , sympathising estimable s with , hated books a listener nothing / ' a , fault for so this of much which lady in , in slie women many held respects as them their to

    be guilty the . It moment -was a their fearful readin storm g extended therefore beyond which the burst Hamburg over the h

    newspaper head of Elizabethwhen the extent of her delinquencies in this direction poor were made known , to the terrible old lady before whom her

    childhood had trembled . Tlientooher husband ' s charges against her with were surprise ming and led horror with falsehoods The shock , and , was hypocrisy too much which for her filled and her her

    _, . , health already gave predisposed way ; a to severe disease disorder by its unn attacked atural her excitement nervous in system early , efforts

    years ; still she contrived , though not without exhausting , to passed shade maintain of her her lips her , departed for firm there and mother was quiet no bearing kep bitterness t watch . No in over her word her feelings of heart reproach ; the and hol ever suf y -

    , fered no evil of this to abide unseen there heavenl , for she witness firmly of believed her life in and the its personal trials . y

    presence She found strength in resignation , and fulfilled and with the equal sweet calmness £

    the maternal hard dut love y . of So obedience far from to the her roug birth h of lord his daughter having cares any o of his wife

    softening 3 nly grew influence more intolerable on Herr ; von and Kecke the charge , his treatment s he brought against

    Elizabeth Von Recke. 167

    ELIZABETH VON RECKE . 167

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/23/