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    XEFE OF MARGABET FITIXER OSSOU:. 15

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    I of these lines said to Mm ( with a fearless confidence in the truth ) I " Mrs . does not like the manner in which you dealt with with leteness

    1 1 and your A i flash book t is impossible ; she lig wishes ht passed to it describe had across been the his treated face ardor with l more ingered which comp in he rep eyes lied . " , ,

    like 66 Ah other , no ! memoirs I was . But ht ; I they said wanted ' No ; Margaret me to have shall it be re- painted written

    | as she best calculated , by man to y impress hands of the , many world friends with what . It she is done was . in It the is

    way done as she would have -wished it . ' " And he lifted up his eyes to the dim blue skof Londonunder which he was walkingas if he

    felt that the spiri y t of his dead , friend listened to him from , above . And true it is that no book we ever read has seemed to us so

    full not be of vital a mode power l boo as k , this and one Margaret . We use Fuller the was word very advisedl far from y : it being may t t

    | _. I ject main a mode touched ; l wi woman th b many y her ; b affectations u p t sh , and live the of d as story sty le , of l she oved her yet , life with vitalised , passed migh every thoug and wi sub h it - in

    was among the peculiar problems of the nineteenth century will - have terest been generations told that yet her unborn name . is In still Boston a household , where s word he chiefl : " Margaret y lived , we "

    s as b h e if dwe g per lt p p iri tuall life tual , y still referred presence fulfilling to lingered by her various simp amon le g offices the Christian peop of le ci name ti with zen , whom sis alone ter , ,

    and friend . We have heard in Home an American lady , who had there been never one of had her been pupils but , all one ude and casuall nev y to w " ould Miss b Margaret e another , " to as th e f

    end of the world ; and what was , more remarkable , she evidently stand expected of whom her Eng she lis was h hearer speaking to b . Separated of the same by mind at least , and fourteen

    underinevitable the deep gulf years of , by that the Atlanti marriage c in which and motherhood the elder friend of both sleeps , and the by

    sleep of death , " Miss Margaret" was a living reality in her pupil's heart Peop and le on who her saw pup her il ' s li during ps . her short sojourn in England in

    or 1846 aff , do ted not and seem saw to no have particular liked her attraction much , in thoug her . ht But her _Margaret awkward

    Fuller did , not apparently possess any powers of immediate fascinawhich fellows tion . it She ; time is required sufficientl to conquer y time evident a to cert bring ain she impression made her faculties on all of p strangers ersona to bear l p , lainness in on sp her ite

    of the account of her looks given in the memoir ; time , above all , mind before could the good make heart them , selves and the felt strong and win will their , and way the as truth they - always loving

    must , and will . Then Margaret ' s , influence was assured , for ever . Again , English readers blame her for egotism and conceit . It

    as must her be self granted -esteem . that Pier her op simp inion licity of her in thi own s matter powers was , while as singular yet she

    Xefe Of Margabet Fitixer Ossou:. 15

    XEFE OF MARGABET _FITIXER OSSOU :. 15

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/15/