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    203 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    we are bound Italian , to when devote ill , themselves is ever left to alone him ; his and friends divide seem the hours to think of watching they are

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    g , y , , gentleness their power could , the tortures have surpassed under which the care he labored with which . It was they said used , no to woman arrange ' s alleviation from chof the

    patience his bed , so with as to which procure they him strove some to cheer the failing hope ange and posture spirits , of or the

    sufferer . " After speaking of Easter , Mrs . Gretton says : —

    princi friends " Dinner pal ; more families partie formal , s to are some ones also sometimes frequentl great personage y on given Easter , at the this social Monday delegate season or or amongst Tuesday the ceremonious bishop intimate , by the for

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    literall whom they y follow cannot the be Evangelical bidden in precept return . of At asking every dinner banquets -party there are y useful always nor to be ornamental met three accessorie or four old snot gentlemen distinguished , friends by of si _3 the rightliness family , , neither riches ,

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    unfailing , ly , whenever age a tratbamento is given—as any gathering for the purtheir pose of accustome making d good seats cheer at the is table denominated not the — le are ast these tinge old of patronage friends seen being in

    , mingled with the cordiality of their reception . " Our authoress to drink tea with a Canonico , whose mixture

    of kindliness , vivacity goes , and childish pleasure at seeing his guests eat sweetmeatsand admire the embroidery of the stoles and albs which

    , have been worked for him , is well g iven : — " * Look at thatlook at that ! ' chuckled the Canonioo rubbing his hands

    with "Macerata glee — , _« vos that all is , tlie of them lace which together all — the are ladies envious of Loretto of when and I _Recenati walk in . arid the

    203 Notices Of Books.

    203 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/59/