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    154 BETTINA.

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    which seem to mock and to pursue me upon this barren historical ground . The endless teacher cavern need , which but open disgorges his lips the , and mammoth I fancy myself bones looking of the down past , and into all an rain

    Meanwhile kinds without troubling pe I trifactions am anxious myself never not about again to the lose to past the be present fructified The evening , which by sunshine receives I wish me to or enj in its oy .

    . lap clouds . I , and rest am awhile happy and when watch a gentle the humming breeze fans bee my tle ; cheeks I turn and my brow face . " to the

    Violet , a young Jewish lady , taught Bettina needlework , and , for a time at leastshe could boast of better success withher scholar

    than the above , -mentioned preceptor . Violet worked , hard from morning to niht to sustain a crippled father and younger brothers

    and sisters . Her g gentleness and unremitting diligence touched the soul of Bettinawho felt deep sympathy with her fate . Our fairy

    sought Violet ' s , company at every hour she possibly could ; she assisted her in providing patterns for her work , sat near lier

    threading the needles and at the same time allowing free play to her own fanciesto which Violet listened in silent wonder and

    admiration . Thus , it once happened that Bettina , who often rose with , the sun , hastened , about four o'clock in the morning , to Violet ,

    whom she found cleaning the pavement before the street door . Bettinafor whom a puddle in the street had a peculiar attraction ,

    took the , broom from her friend , and with infinite delight began to sweep and wash , the stone steps . Unfortunately , a gentleman

    friend of her aunt's passed by , and , astonished to see the young lad 66 y V thus bus occup n _' avez ied point , told de her pudeur relation point about de it . respect humainon vous

    , , trouve balayer la rue main en main avec une Juive , " angrily exclaimed the mortified auntto which Bettina replied

    " How shall I weave , the threads of my existence , in this eventful world , if the simplest thing is looked upon as a breach , of

    deportment ?" Another time she passed the kitchen door , when Agnes ( a deaf

    servant of her grandmother's ) was on the point of killing a fowl . Bettina recognised her pet chicken . In an instant she pulled away

    the stool beneath , old Agnes , who fell on her back with lier legs in the air , the murderous weapon still grasped in h . er hand , while

    Bettina made away with , her protege . The trembling cook , who had neither heard nor ht a glimpse of her , was half dead with _,

    fright , and in the evening caug told a long story of kitchen sprites "which , haunted and mocked lier .

    Several young ladies and gentlemen , Bettina among the number , took dancing lessons together . A French , ballet-master used to

    come and teach them in Frau de la Roche ' s house . Leniently as

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    154 BETTINA .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/10/