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    280 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    The Shadow In The M House Artyrdom . A ,...

    among the Apennines , or set in the iniddle-aged phraseology supposed to be appropriate to plotting and crime . There are , besides ,

    some glaring improbabilities in the plot , which again are the more prominent from the otherwise real and natural surroundings . The

    truth , goodness , and simplicity of Winny baffling the cruel machinations of her enemy are beautifully and truly described , and the full

    and generous forgiveness at the last does but complete the tender strength of the character ; but as Winny was something more than

    a yielding loving nature , we cannot believe she would have been a passive accomplice in her own murder .

    The beauty of her character is just that its gentleness does not warp its truth and strengthand we are therefore sure that she

    , _"would have saved her enemy from crime and remorse , and her husband from misery , in _sj _3 ite of the specious temptation of

    selfsacrifice , which so few of our modern heroines can resist . Even that irresistible Will-o ' -the-wisp would , we are sure , not have misled

    her honest _iipright heart ; and we read and reread the passage before we could believe we had understood it rightly . But we will not

    mar the interesb of an interesting story by farther revealing the plot To . many persons the comic characterswho , as in a play , have

    , their own story to work out , and relieve the dark and serious scenes , will seem the best managed of the book . Cook , John Short , and

    Meggy are excellently well > given , and the humor is original and unexaggerated .

    Here is the first appearance of the new mistress , their master ' s bride , in the kitchen .

    " ' Lord bless you , they ' re going a partying it to-night in a small way , before they gives a grand to-do next week , ' number said Cook of , sitting bars do from wn with thin a snow iece y

    round board " in her lap , and cutting ; - a tiny a j ) of paste . ' I don't say t take it ' s any witch business to tell o' m what ine , ' ll she went to on the , lo lace werin with g her

    voice' but it wouldn'a 'come pa thing young , thing she scarce don't understand out o' pinafores to them , a missusing as doeswell it about and . ood If she but ' d l eav less e

    s as , g ; , to you ni , she ht . ' s in Wh and out Miss —in Addersley and out— never like a showed cat before her a face shower onl , y from just niorn to give in ' y

    they orders g for 't dinner understand , . And I Ha 'll ' tell done you what scrunching comes them o' _peoj cherry ) le interfering -stones where Meg !

    . , , itches Be so g to do it . to Lor give ! her there a knock she is o off ' the head in ! Did for me , Mr ever . Short see . such My a hands bit of agyou

    the tinder irl in — all she your 'll chok life ? herself With ! them Put , ' stones em out in Meg her mouth d ' hear too ? . Put Plague ' em tak out e

    do ! g There ! Don' e t let me catch you at , that , fun ye agin in a hurry—r-you , ' young hussy—you ! Let ' s see , what was I She a say missus ing ? If she aint enoug at h the to

    d aggravate th a when saint . tliey Oh , came about in the from milk their . walk — last night I mean and — stop s shein

    I ' solemn or ere it way , hang , as ing slie about looked for upwards daysWe , " Cook shall , have we ' re it going in earnest _; to have now y a You storm , 'll .

    ve seen . . this have by to taking wait for it to down -morrow below ' s " milk " Storm for the ma junket ' am ? , " I fear , Prob but you " it may ' s far sav oft e '

    ., says y , yet chime . " s "Oh in master , " says Miss " leav Grac e Cook e , " alone Cook for understands her junket . the " dairy " Well . " , we "Yes shall —yes see , ; "

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    280 Notices Of Books.

    280 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/64/