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40o The Chester And Hereford Railway Pas...
known " You tMrt ' re right or , five sir . -and The -thirt old lady is tlie . Mary Indeed Cresset , she so is well well y y years ago
known stillas I believe . For one of the gentlemen here last autumn was , telling Mr . Ashlake , the curate , that many good things those
of which she wrote , went so far before people ' s opinions in several ' days em , into that time practice they s whilst ' re . onl he This y was now gentleman here beginning to see , the to Sir understand old Rob lad ert y Murson and ' em gave , and , went her put ,
, handsomel as the parish . I clerk was told lad me to , hear some it writing , for thoug to do h , she and and paid her her sister very - yg
in-law be the last people in the world to complain , yet I think that you life " is not As but alas think a to strugg that too le many Mrs to . them Cresset who . " do has the world some sister ' small s in noblest law yearl and work y sum the . But to child live do
? Or is shewith the widowed -- , dependent upon solely on , the gains of their little shop for a means of livelihood "
reason " I fancy that . , once sir , she when has I had some the small leasure yearly of means going of into her own her , parlour for the p
to she speak liked to London her— , for and she how is quite greatl a y lad she y of , should sir her —she sister prefer told and living me how fche there child much in
winter So I think time b , if that it was she 'nt must for the have sake some little of her own to live . y upon . "
" And the shop , —is that no source of profit ?" get for " peop At elsewhere first le , far I and thoug For wide ht they , it beg sell was in nothing n to 't , find but of the I should grocery tea better think beyond than it tea was they , coffee now can ; ,
. worth Even and sugar in their paper ; while and , to and to thi go those s is to adde the sort d shop of stationery things ; for , even peop and le sm in about all the hab The county here erdashery old find town lad it . they cannot get the things half so good and cheap . y
manages this part , that is , their wholesale purchase ; for , as Mr . they Ashlake says much , she better has a brain and cheaper for every than thing where . This they is wh who y , I purchase suppose ,
are so however are ignorant , the , old and gentlewoman look only to profit takes and no to the part cheapness in the and . business fills Beyond : what this the ,
widow , a nice , kind little soul , attends shop , up spare " And time the she b has etter with and a we little althier dressmaking classes ab . " out here—do they pay ?
her the attention and respect she deserves " Ashlake " A few the of them ; curate but not is so many kind as oug and ht hel , I ps ' m little thinking Mary . with Mr .
her lessons , . young He says he should , very honor the , old gentlewoman , if only for one thing , which is that—considering what she is , and what she
has done— -she should do so plain and simple a thing as help to keep than a little app country ly to government shop , in order for a to pension support , or her to brother a charit 's y child for support , rather .
This is the spirit of true independence , as he says . "
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/34/