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    20 LIFE OE MARGAKET PULLER OSSOLIc

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    But this anxiety and overwork produced a terrible feeling in her headand in 1835 a distressing weight on the top of the brain

    seized , herand -without intermission for nine long days and nights , all was feverand pain . Her fatherhabitually so sparing

    in tokens agony of affection , , , was led by his anxiety , to express himself in stronger terms than usual , and his eulogy , which moved her to tears ,

    admitted that she possessed , in common with all , some defects , but pronounced her free from faults . The invalid recovered surely ,

    if slowly : but a dark dispensation way yet remained for the family ; death had only retreated , not retired from their circle , for on the

    evening of the 30 th of September her father was seized with cholera , and on the 2 nd of October was a corpse . For the first two days her

    grief under this unexpected calamity was such that she dare not speak of it ; her brothers and sisters were ill , her mother

    overpowered with sorrow , fatigue , and anxiety . Her father left no will , and in ence her pathwas hedged in by niany petty

    difficulties ; consequ he left less property , than was anticipated , and Margaret now really , if not nominally the head of the family , was very

    ignorant of the management of property . Practical details she had always hatedthe din of such affairs annoyed herand she hoped to

    find a life-long , refuge from them in the serene world , of literature and the arts ; but her strong sense of duty conquered all difficulties ,

    and in a solemn prayer , offered the very night after her father ' s _$ eathshe determined to combine what was due to others with what

    was due , to herselfThe first fruits of this resolution was to deny herself the pleasure , of a visit to Europe , which for two years and

    > _3 nore had been the day-star of her life , and for which , as a means of equitablremunerating her parents for the cost of such a

    tour , she had y faithfully devoted herself to teaching the younger members of her family . " Cut off from access to scholars , libraries ,

    lectures , galleries of art , museums of science , antiquities , and the historic scenes of Europe , Margaret bent her powers to use such

    opportunities of culture as she could command in her solitary country But we home must . let her tell in her own words _^ the strength of the

    temptation and the greatness of the victory ; remembering all that is implied in the magic word _" Europe" to a young and intellectual

    American woman . _" Margaret The death could of her well father have "been broug called ht in its on train to bear a disapp For ointment two as keen and .

    as . years more she had been buoyed tip "to intense effort by the promise of a visit to Europe ably remunerating for the end of her comp parents leting for her the of culture the cost . of And such members as a tour the , means she of the ha of d famil equit faith-

    full Her y honored devoted friend herself s to Professor the teaching and Mrs . _Earrar younger who were about visiting y . the Old Worldhad , invited lier to be their companion , ; and , as Miss

    before Martineau her was was as to , brilliant return to with Eng generous land in h the opes shi as p her with 1 st them iring she , the ima writes g prospect ination _,

    _poiild conceive . But now , in her journal of January , 1886 , ; —

    20 Life Oe Margaket Puller Ossolic

    20 LIFE OE MARGAKET PULLER OSSOLIc

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/20/