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    "38 :nx)tes of byways.

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    It Lias Been Remarked That, In Soine Res...

    " The mind Is its own place . " When I entered the room , and stood bthe cheerful invalid as she reclined on her bedI no longer

    rememb y ered I was in Salter _' s Buildings . The very , atmosphere seemed changed . From the window I could see where the smoke

    rose sullenly from the chimneys of _FarnelTs Rents , but at what a distance from all that is low and degrading did the occupants of

    that room appear ; how effectual and almost mysterious its exclusion . From accounts of the suffering and privation she had undergone , I

    had anticipated a painful and careworn expression , but it was wholly otherwise ; there -was a cheerfulness and fortitude , softened by an

    indescribable repose , the expression of one who has come through strange temptation and vicissitude , and now at the close of the

    burning conflict exclaims , " My righteousness have I held fast , and will It not was let a it decent go . " apartmentcontaining no furniture but such as

    was absolutely necessary , exce , pt a few pictures , among which "was some framed needlework that had been executed more than half a

    century previously by one who had never had to wrestle with adversity , nor dreamed that the volume of Fate contained any such lesson

    for her descendants . You did not require to be told that it "was the portrait of a relative which looked placidly and half sorrowfully down

    upon the patient Invalid . Nor that its conrpanion , with the inconthe venientl younger y hig sister h coat . -collar It is scarcel and frille y necessary d shirt bosom to say , that was Miss near Keyworth of kin to

    was fatherless . Yet not to any want of paternal prudence or foreleft the thoug two amp ht le daug were provision hters her present to for whom his circumstances we famil have y , which been owing introduced consisted . Mr . . of Keyworth one son had and

    There is nothing very strange in the story of their reverses . It is indeed a too common one . The affairs of their brother hadowing

    , to his extravagance and improvidence , become entangled . As is too often the case under such circumstances , he speculated rashly , and so

    involved his sisters in his own utter ruin . At this crisis many of Miss are shocked Keyworth at ' the s friends wickedness belong of ing mankind to that in class general of persons took refuge who

    in their virtuous principles from any _ajDpeal which might , be made to their sympathies . Had not her brother acted themselves in the basest ? It manner not

    the to his province creditors of mortals , and most to interfere unhandsomely with the to retributions of Providence was ; it was ordained that the sins of the—brothers should be visited on

    the the sisters " fathers ;— " at and least the , this children was imp . lied Others in the were ordination liberal respecting h as enoug

    regards advice ; they were unanimous too—Miss Keyworth must procure an engagement as it was the only thing she could

    do ; all agreed in this view governess . Being ; the only thing , it seemed superfluous to add so haticallthat it was the best .

    empy It was rather hard for a girl over whose head twenty summers

    had scarcely flown , to have the charge of the maintenance of a child

    "38 :Nx)Tes Of Byways.

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/38/