The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

ours, full of all sorts of kind, good-na-
tured people, who are daily doing much
for the poor, an amiable girl like this,
the daughter of clergyman of the
Church of England, could be suffered to
sink into such abject poverty"
"Ah! my dear Catherine, that shows
you have only seen life upon one side,
and that its fairest side-as it presents
itself in the country. You can not inn
agine what a dreadful thing it may
prove in large cities. 1t can not enter
into the head of man to conceive the hOr-
rible contrasts of large cities, the dread
full destitution of large cities, the awful
solitude of a crowd. In the country,
think, such thing hardly could have
happened, however great the difficulty is
of helping those who still preserve the
delicacy and dignity with regard to
money matters, which distinguishes finer
minds, but in London what can be done?
Like lead in the mighty waters, the
moneyless and friendless sink to the bot
tom. Society in all its countless-degrees
closes over them; they are lost in its
immensity, hidden from every eye, and
they perish as an insect might per-
ish; amid the myriads of its kind, un-
needed by every other living creature.
All, my love! if your walks lay where
mine have done, your heart would bleed
for these destitute women, born to bett ter
hopes, and utterly ship-wrecked."
"She was such a dear, amiable girl"
Catherine went on, $50 cheerful, so
sweet-tenpered, so clever in all that one
likes to see people clever about! Her
mother was a lily woman"
$50 she showed, | fear in coming to
London" said Mrs. Danyers.
"She was so proud of Myra's beauty,
and she seemed to think so little of Let.
tice. She was always prophesying that
Myra would make great match; and 50
did her aunt, Mrs. Price, who was no
wiser than Mrs. Arnold; and they
brought up the poor girl to such a con-
ceit of herself, to mot TO do that, and 1T
was beneath her to do that and refer
ring every individual thing to her COM
fort and advancement, till, poor girl, she
could hardly escape growing, what she
certainly did grow into, very spoiled,
SclllSn creature. W Hllc ucdl lCt'lttJ III
her simplicity, that simplicity which
'thinketh no evil took it so naturally
that 50 it was, and so it ought to be; that
sometimes one laughed, and sometimes
one felt provoked, but one loved her
above all things. | never saw such a
temper"
Il dare say" said Mrs. Danvers, "that
your intention in staying in town to-day
was to pay them visit which, indeed,
we had better do. | had only glance
into their apartment the other day, ut
it occurred to me that they wanted COM
mon necessaries. Ignorant as | was of
who they were, was thinking to get
them put upon Lady As coal and
blanket list, but that can not very well
be done row. However, presents are
always permitted under certain condi-
tions, and the most delicate receive them
and, really, this is a case to waive a feel
ing of that sort in some measure. As
you are an old friend and acquaintance,
there can be no harm in few present,
before you leave town."
$50 | was thinking, ma'am, and Pm
very inpatient to 20 and see them, anc
find out what they may be most in neeo
of"
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