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    ^ "I Have Done A Very Good Morning's Wor...

    had sacrificed her time or her pleasure to them , they always said , a " Oh great , I will bore ask , and poor very Mildred disagreeable to do it and ; " or painful , " Well , so , poor really Mildred , it was

    did I it . _" it was a sort of acknowledgment that people were suppose

    b always einso imposing readto on ive her to good them nature . It , used and to rather hurt desp me for ised Mildred her for , y gup

    and g I once and said love so to I Charles never saw ; but in his it except face lit for up Mildred with a , and look lie of

    reverence said " Never mindSusan ! we talk of our dead as ' poor' so-andalways , and yet , we neither ity nor despise them , and that is the

    so in which , le ' Poor p Mildred . ' " sense Wellpoor Mildred peopsay had a broad , good-humored Irish face , and

    an cert intelli ainly , , gent but , she but had not intellectual large bright expression clear brown . low She eyes musical was , out not voice of pretty which ,

    her soul seemed to look straight at one , and a . so But smooth when . Step I saw hen b came the down he in the bit winter his lips , things when were I happened no longer to y way

    let fall that Charles , had dined the last two days at the vicarage , that belief he Mildred was annoye had d neither and angry famil at the nor idea fortune . He talent was proud nor elegance beyond ;

    and neither . his . love for Charles y nor his still , deeper love for _" the lace" could be satisfied with so , poor a connection .

    that p Oh evening , , poor * , Mrs with . Mahon her eye ! s how red and well her I kn manner ew to when _vexy she subdued came her , do that wn he

    was Stephen invariabl had been y respectful ( I suppose in Ms I m oug anner ht not , but ) " say strong scolding ly representing , as " how culpably weak she had been in allowing matters to proceed so

    far . Poor Mrs . Mahon ! She was _qiiite cowed , and when her hands learned

    trembled love of knitting so she could first hardl from y her go on Mary with ) her I reall knitting y felt , ( I quite angry my

    innocent with Stephen and . unconscious "What right , and had , Margaret he to , interfere sang and ? Charles chattered looked , and rested her

    enlivened us all ; but , except when Stephen ' s eyes on , if and he he was could making not hel up p his smiling mind , he to s looked ome summoned desperate stern and resolve determined . So was and , as

    I , in a small way ; and next morning I up courage , when " Step he hen and " I said happened Iand to I heard be alone heart in the beating library loud I began as I . spoke ;

    " Stephen , I , expect I , shall soon have my to congratulate you on a new sister . "

    " " Well What " do sai yon d I mean " Charle , Susan s is ?" alwat the vicarage , and I feel ays

    ,, sure that Mildred likes him . " " Very probably , " returned he , with a sneer ; " that is not

    exactl Now y , the I thoug question ht that . " was exactly the question , and the first thing

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/31/