Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-11-24

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ory aldupon hope!n She hardly dared
trust herselfto pronounce that little word
s'hope,"' which, TO a really broken heart,
sounds more like mockery than consoia-s
ton. Her father looked mournfully into
her face, and shook his head in bitter si.
,lence; he then recIosed the casket, and
would have placed tin her hands;
..They are the only portion left, YOU.
Margaret = - = az ssss
= 'sNotso, father; they would take1ap por-
ton from me.''. - SCI ftss3 !
> elbow, child?'' stt,zsg :. "a !
ssAnhonest conscience! # cannot Keep
them; they were bought with your money
for the daughter of the rich-they would
not, dearest father, become the daughter of
q poor naaRsaA ask, is pegnission te g,
initiate your example. You give up AT :
o! suffer me to do the same, and do not
suppose so meanly of your own girl, as that
she valued these more than that self appro-
baton, whose silent voice is sweeter than
the applause Of courts or kings ~.
Maurice Sunderland was neither harsh
man nor stern father; he had loved and
admired his daughter, but he had never
known her till that moment. He made no
reply to her words, but folded her silently
to his breast; and she felt tears-the first
she had ever known him shed-falling up
on her brow.
F These misfortunes may be considered the
commencement of Margaret's trials. The
family removed to Lincoln, as one or two
relatives lived there, who could forward the
plan Mrs. Sunderland had formed for their
support Her affection for her father would
not permit her to leave him to the care of
a giddy, childish sister, and her almost idi-
otic mother, particularly as his health was
visibly sinking, and nature appeared una
BILE to repair the inroads of disease. She
therefore accepted most JOY fully the charge
of the education offour little girls, her cous-
ins, who were to remain with her only du-
ring the day, as their parents resided in
the good city of Lincoln. Her father rails
ed no obstacle 10 the plan; though his with
cred cheek flushed, and his hand trembied,
the first day that he saw his beautiful Mar.
garet quietly arranging and experimenting
her eleves in the back parlor Of their cot.
tage, which she had converted into school
room; but her mothers caprice and spirit
of contradiction was constant source OF
modification, although it tended still more
to draw forth her daughters virtues; she
was never satisfied; always regretting their
past splendor always reproaching poor
Margaret with having degraded her family
by condescending to become 'school-mis'
tress,' and yet thoughtlessly squandering
her hard earnings on selfish enjoyments
f'This was not all; notone who has only reae
Of fsThe delightful task ofteaching the young
idea how to shoot can form an estimate o
the self.denial which must be the portion o
an instructress, particularly if she be con
scientious in the discharge of her duty. AL
influences, to be useful, must be exercised
with discretion; and it is but one little steE
from dominion to tyranny. Margaret wa
therefore, obliged to practice as we'll a
preach; and, indeed, one without the othe
is always unavailing; she had to watch
not only herself, but others, so that he
maxims might be really useful to those sh
i sought to improve She wished to maxi
them not only accomplished, but informed
and her new system,' as it was called, wa
subject to animadyersions, both from he
: relatives and their friends; who, as usua
on such occasions, quite forgot what Mis-
Sunderland had been in what she was
treated her merely as sthe governess,' an
admitted her only as such TO their houses.
l Ofall persons doomed by the waverin
scale of fortune to earn their own breae
/ none are so much to be felt for as govern
. esses. The servant, when her work is don
: has an hour or two that she can call he
, own, and she has no ambition beyond ne
: sphere. But the governess has no spher
is considered part of the kitchen,pal
of the drawing room-from the latter sh
: is often expelled, and from the former sh
I turns with disgust. She struggles betwee
9 double existence; she is sort OF an an
. phibious creation, belonging to two sep'
rate states She must appear like gel
: tlewoman, while she hardly receives II
q wages of ladx's maid; she must be "a
d complished and refined yet keep her a
4 conplishments out of the way till calle
i for; and support insult as il she were d
n void Of feeling. Heaven help those Wt
r are obliged to go 'a-governessing,' for the
can expect but little help from earth! We
!, umes might be filled by The Trials of
Q Governess.' ,..a.:., az. :.
!. AT one Of those visits, which she CONT
e ually shrunk from, and only endured
j. an occasional penance, she met the vel
d Ernest Heathwood to whom Rose so u
o willingly alluded during their evening wal
? The eldest son of baronst, who with
: new honors, had changed, it was understoo
, a mercantile for a somewhat aristocra'
70 name, was a likely person to attract atte
If ton, and win the civilities Of all within h
= circle; and he was welcomed to the ma
,el sion Of one of Miss Sunderland's relativ
with extraordinary courtesy. Margal
of always collected, always ldignihed, soug
a neither to attract nor avoid his attentions;t
,r silently suffered all the little maneuye
Is of second rate country town society to ia
" their course. The anxieties that sor
II n,otbers avinced to crowd a tribe of