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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864. Excerpt: ... JAMES AND MARY. gESIDE a furzy common patched with sand, An ancient mansion stood, a piebald heap Of blackened oak and plaster: in the days Of queenly Bess a hall, a farmstead now. Here Martha Bruce for many years abode, A widowed mother with a single child, Mary a comely blossom of eighteen. Now Martha, ere she fell in widowhood, Had in her cares of wifedom fretful grown: A grievance-searching nature hers, most keen To guage and probe the petty rubs and thorns Of household custom: dwelling on her cares, She bred them for herself from carelessness And want of system; then on these complained In needless-fretful whining, till she made The mote annoyance bulge a beam of wrong, And half believed herself an injured drudge, The very model of a wife ill-used. And thus she found her trouble for herself By faults of nature part, of nurture more: Forsooth she had been delicately bred, A yeoman's daughter upon gentry's verge, Taught that to move in homely usefulness, To touch a pan or darn a stocking end, Were loss of caste: the lady must not toil; And the more helpless the more lady she. And thus the girl grew, till she came to wed, Environed with a draff gentility: And when she wedded with a poorer man She started on the test of married days With slender stock of foresight; soon to fail, And sour herself and make a curse of home, Alternative in shrewing and in tears. And, after years, her goodman chanced to die; She, left with narrow store and one weak child, Held barely on the farm as best she might Unthrifty, cankered with penurious days, While still she gave her want the fiercer sting With jarring discontents, and evil thoughts Against her richer neighbours in the land. And she would prate to Mary as she grew, Filling the child with vainness and conceit, How n...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151347619
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151347612
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 59 gr


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