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    NOTES OF BYWAYS. 39

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    note , And and so Miss the child Keyworth was p entered laced in on an her establishment new career . of But very the humble child

    was when , sickl in the y , and vacation pined she among joined strangers her sister ; so that changed the latter was she formed , indeed the ,

    , proj cure ect a livelihood of residing without in London the , necessity where she of hoped separation by her . talents This seemed to

    prothe more feasible as the demands on her purse were unexpectedly to numerous meet when and her large small ; such , ital in should fact , as fail she . would But unfortunatel be really unable y she cap

    found herself one of a very numerous class , and the chances of success were _proportionately diminished . Althoug been unin h she cumb disp ered layed mi an ht energy have

    insured and perseverance a degree of -which success , had , yet she , under the ted circumstances what lied , , she g failed .

    Foiled in her various effortsshe attempimpno vanity immeasurabl on her part , for inferior there to were herself , those had of to her some acquaintance extent succeeded who , . thoug "With h

    the Povert scrupulous periodical . True care y press she the prepared . But and Genius some the , rich papers answers are , which favored not she the impartiall contributed invocation y , but to of poor

    the endowment y , is from natureand is bestowed with life . Though unusuall humiliating rate , her y effo gifted position rts , pr Miss oved in Keyworth a -which failure , we . lacked have Step discovered this by _stejD peculiar she her ' appro facult . Then y ache ; at d sick any the

    ness cameinduced no doubt by privation and mental suffering , and as her " obstinacy , " formed an excellent pretext for the withdrawal

    of her Ther friends e was , one they lad withdrew however . a distant connexion , who made a

    point gaunt of lad visiting y of about the fifty y sisters , . If occasionall _" the , milk y . of Mrs human . Norton kindness was " a had tall

    hand was ever a been of human death infused icicle had into . swept One her over nature mig her ht , , almost it strai must ghtening have have imag turned and ined stiffening sour that . her She the , to

    and then left her with just so much of life as enabled her move who along has in a monotonous than one circle set of with ideas a . precision These ideas impossible related to chiefl any y one to

    more her own superiority and the duty of others . She held herself to be tain a most it charitable she occasionall lady , and visited as this the belief required with the something generous view to sus of - poor

    advising , and reproving y them , and this she did gratuitously . Miss object Keyworth in visiting had been her favored seemed with rather a little to show advice her ; but how Mrs many . Norton things ' s

    she had _" left undone that she ought to have done , " and how many hi she But her had conscience and done which motives repudiated she oug than ht these not were to representations attributed have done to . her , and . testified With such to purer

    a consoler g she could endure reproach . She was drawing nigh to the

    Notes Of Byways. 39

    NOTES OF BYWAYS . 39

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/39/