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    father vras ? Oh , that there should be such things in the world Her father was—a butcher 1 ' All her sorrow over this circumstance neither reduced Miss Bullock's bulk nor blushes ; and the first serious indisposition into which she succeeded in throwing herself was on the occasion of her father ' s marriage with a worthy woman , who became his second wife soon after Selina Bullock had completed her seventeenth

    year . She attributed the fits and fever from which she suffered to the sound of the marrow-bones and cleavers ,, with which characteristic music the newly married pair were duly honoured ; but I cannot but believe that what she considered her father ' s fatuity , in making such a woman " bone of his bone , and flesh of his flesh /' was the real thorn in Selina ' s side . ' Hitherto she had suffered from few annoyances but such as she created for herself , which were not half so efficacious as those which were created for her by another . Such a salutary love of self is implanted in human nature that we never voluntarily give unto ourselves any very serious hurt .

    ' Mrs . Bullock was an honest homely woman , with as much coarse common sense as her dau ghter-in-law had fastidious refinement ; this sense was a hard rou gh-flavoured fruit , a sort of wall-fruit , cased in a sturdy cover , which , when cracked , afforded a kernel difficult of digestion . e What a fool your father has been , ' said the bride one day , addressing Miss Bullock , "to have let you be brought up in all this here idleness , which makes you go moping about all day , with more megrims in your head than he has meat in his shop . "

    * Selina drew forth her smelling bottle : this attack upon her nerves was made near dinner time , and , unfortunately for her sentimental character , she felt an appetite , and no disposition to postpone its gratification , or she would certainly have retired to her room , wept over her uncongenial destiny , and perhaps penned some stanzas under the title of " Delicate Distress . " As it was , she swallowed her sufferings and her soup in silence ; while her sire , between the pauses of a very arduous mastication , regaled his helpmate with the history of his morning occupations in Smith field market , to which she listened with lively interest , and which she rewarded with many a hearty laugh , many an

    incidental remark or exclamation . ' This was the tenour of their life : to the obscure and toilincr portion of society one day is like another ; as in the same way , in a different field of action , one day is like another to the votary of fashion and pleasure . The sweet spirit of variety is present to none but the moral and intellectual worker , who , with one purp ose , has a thousand prospects ; who , with one source of light , has a thousand beaming tints . * Selina , continually disgusted of oflfefided by thfe manners , habits , and expressions of her parents , adopted a system of silence ,

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    Sketches of Domestic Life . 447

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/11/