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    CONSTANCY MISPLACED. 25

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    . . Wildl It Were Was Y Past Along A ; G...

    she their themselve was own able s ; , and in , by order thoug her to quick h make Elise apprehension was the a treasures year younger and of eager the than ancient zeal her , brother to Classics keep ,

    pace Instead with him of childish . tales and romancesCornelius Nepos , Livy ,

    and Julius _Csesar had been the first mental , nourishment of the girl ; and the dryness which such a mode of education might have

    which imparted and a were cold to deepened rationalism her , had been by in the c matt ounteracted lovel ers y of scenery faith by her s had urr own ound been poetic ing modified her feelings home by , ,

    the spirit of imagination , whose power no heart can wholly withstand

    . mother This ' s system influence of education was small had . It one is disadvantage certainly very for Elise good : and her

    tellect pleasant when , and decidedl a father y undertakes favourable the for the education development of his of daug the hter in- .

    influence When , , however of a mother , such and paternal the estimation superintendence in which interferes she is held with the the

    , father is too often elevated into an idol , and the training becomes one-sided . There is always something wrong when "My father " affection

    • is ever in the mouth of a young girl , when her filial partakes of a sentimental feeling towards him , and the his mother paternal is onl love

    has a dash of the chivalrous towards her , when y the admire good her housekeeper talented daug , who hter must . _Stich cook a , and state darn of things the stockings may at but times , and it

    be unavoidable where the mother is of inferior cultivation , is certainl Elise y very lied undesirable readil . with the wishes of her mother y ,

    wherever comp they did very not interfere with those of her father ; she and applied her herself good sense to household and natural arrangements titude made when this it was easy necessary enough ; ,

    but her mind was never interested ap in such small affairs ; she lived in a world of the ancientsin dreams of great and heroic deedsof

    extraordinary self-denials , and sacrifices for the Fatherland . In , the hours of studwith her fatherthe " brave days of old" was the

    constant theme y . With her brother , who frequently came home from the in and their G redemption ymnasium burning in words of the her adj , and country acent laid town magnificent whose , , she read oppression p modern lans for and poets the abasement elevation , revelled

    tiad already commenced . But when , she was alone on the beautiful banks of the riverwhich lided past her home—alone upon the

    , g , Little arbour rock and y hei looked ght where out into she the had mist trained horizon the in wild that vine sunny into land an , y

    _bhen _golden : > f a kindred the , pictures warm soul of beatings a in glorious whom of she future the would maiden arose find before heart repeated her awoke . the , She and bri dreamed bri ghtest ght

    m & richest parts of her own being ; of a sun under whose beams

    ; he budding beauties of hex * mind would unfold to life and power ;

    Constancy Misplaced. 25

    CONSTANCY MISPLACED . 25

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/25/