New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13
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Ofconrse it was mistake from the very
first. Our excuse was that it was done fol
the best. Conscious, therefore. that we in
tended to do rightly, We all of lis feel that
peculiar. comfort which good actions. nc
matter how they are reguited, alone car
confer. In all the troubles of this world
il we are only sure that our motives have
been guided by the pole-star Of self-sacri
flee, and few other minor consultations
then some time or other the haven Of con.
ISOLATION must be reached.
feel no end of relief in expressing my.
self in this way, for if the object of all our
kindness and selfsacriticing had been pres.
ent now, and had read my first paragraph
to her. that girl would have laughed over
the sentence. She always had q peculiar
way of laughing, which was distressing to
a degree. My respected mother and my.
self, the former the principal. the latter the
first assistant in our school, never could OK.
actly understand that girl. Of course, any.
thing beyond litter never was allowed
within the precincts of our establishment.
When that girl was little we did try SO
hard to quench vulgarity in her, but there
was q way Winnifred had of laughing with
her eyes which would not be put down.
That girls eyes were like wells, deep and
sombre at times; but then, though she would
purse up her mouth, her eyes would smile
anu lhuSu ctcH III ~ Uoi5ttIOub HlduucT.
Mother and i, to employ the expression,
used to throw stones on stones into those
fgurative eyewells, to see if we could en-.
tirely fill up and choke the ripples we saw
there. Sometimes, it is true, we made her
cry, but that girl, think, was quite callous
and underhand, and would not come to the
surface, and when we thought cure was
effected, when We least expected it, that
girls eyes would beam and look unutter-
oh II Al
there was anything inherently bad about
Winniired. ] am proudto say that any girl.
no matter what might have been her social
position, whether che paid our highest rates
Tor instruction or had certain deductions
made quarterly, no girl, | repeat. could
have existed under mother influences with.
out having the highest moral and mental
excellence instilled into her. Winnifred
never paid for what she received IN the
way of tuition after the first eighteen
molths or so, and even then it was taken
out in beef. l am forced to declare that
Winnifred's father was q butcher. When
mother first opened our school it was q
modest establishment, and, although was
go young then IS to have almast forgotten
it. think we had to scrape along in most
economical way. Meat being an object,
and the butcher being right round the cor.
ner, mother, in cheer goodness of heart,
q
chops, steaks, and surl0ins There was
careful agreement drawn up that Gertrude
must always be dressed in q certain way.
and there were some minor stipulations en-.
tered into limiting, very properly, the exact
number of times in Q quarter that girl
should see her father. The butch.
er-l must say it to his credit
kept his promises Quite well for .
time. Whether he lost money by it am
not prepared to say. / think mother, who
IS the soul Of honor, said that Wilkins, the
butcher, informed her on several occasions
that he had. Any how, one day the mans
shop was found closed up. This We only
learned when We sent round for kAckle
OF veal, when We discovered that, being a
short Auo ooese person. he had died of
apoPlexy, ana could get no meat. Winni-
tired was then twelve years old. Il was
about twenty-five then; conseouentlv that
girl has been on our hands fully seven
years. Mother was, as she ALWAYS ia. ouite
strong minded when certain emergencies
occur. In straightforward, practical
way, adapted to the social status of thot
girl and the condition Of atfaire. a cntt;n~
from, q newspaper, where her parents and.
den death was heralded in the accidents
and casualties, was incl0sed by me, accord.
ing to, my mothers instructions, between
the leaves Of '.The First RAdiments of Bot.
any and handed 10 that girl. Fmention
- booh particularly, in order to show that
style OF t1acation she was receiving
was OF tne highes. character. Nothing
could have been kinder than our clergy.
man, who, when the girl was i'll just then,
used to como and, lecture her by the hour
for weeks, assisted by mother. When she
was well mother very calmly and i'm