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    160 CAROLINE PXCHLER.

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    "bleeding spirit , and where philosophy had failed to give any aidy . poetry Her now sorrow wroug had ht a been perfect secret cure . pride preventing any betrayal

    , of it , as she had a great repugnance to acting the part of " Dido abandoned" before the worldwhile her good sense forbade

    , her forming any worse opinion of men in general on account of her own painful individual experience . Holding , on the

    beg sonall contrary inning was , a to shut very look out exalted upon brelentless love opinion as fate a of paradise the she other was from fain sex , , which to and exercise onl she y per now her

    affections y by indulging y in female friendshi , ps . A young lady named Thoug Josephine h few was guessed favoured what with had the been greatest the cause share of of the her alteration confidence in .

    herthe effect soon became visible ; the gay girl had changed into the , earnest womanpromenades and large assemblies had lost

    their charm young she seldom danced , and extending her reading to books of deeper character , began to stud , y HerderSenecaand Pythagoras ,

    the perusal of the , latter inciting her and , her friend , to become vegetarians with a view more effectually to subdue tha flesh to the

    marriage spirit . As for they love seemed had both unattainable decided to , they remain determined unmarried to , devote since

    their spare time to the education of some children in the neighbourhood .

    It was but little leisure that Caroline ever enjoyed , for her mother having always _enforced upon her frugality and

    selfmilliner helpfulness her , she father was 's love accustomed for music to required be her the own devoting hair-dresser of many and

    hours to ; that pursuit , while her mother ' s failing sight necessitated her reading to herwriting her letters for herand keeping all

    household accounts . , It was not till all these claims , were discharged that her time was at her own disposal . Her mother had always

    impressed and that on it her was th onl at y the during care of any the tim hous ht e that to ehold mi was ght woman in remain other ' s first after dut that y ,

    was fulfilled , that she had any rigengage pursuits , rather though than when to she embroidery had chosen to to pay devote ing visits this time or to to reading writing novels verses ,

    her choice had been rather , commended than , discouraged . The result of this strict early discipline was , that in her old age she was

    able conscientiously to affirm that though in the course of her life she had published more than fifty volumesnot a single line in any

    one of them had been written at the expense , of any other duty , and that her parents had been as dutifully tended , her husband as

    much cheered by her society , and her child as well educated as if she Correspondence had never engaged with in Josep authorshi hineprinci p . pally on the subject of their

    studiesseems at this time to have , been the chief occupation of her pen , but , a greater solace than friendship could afford was yet in

    store for her . A handsome , clever , but very shy young man ,..

    160 Caroline Pxchler.

    160 CAROLINE PXCHLER .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/16/