The Clergyman's Widow, and Her Young Family (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...on the subject would not be borne. But the tone she had assumed softened when she saw Sarah advance, with dry eyes and a serene though pale countenance, to wait her commands. She knew the effort this cost a mind of Sarah's cast, and she gave her no common praise for the exertion; and willing to shorten a scene unavoidably painful to all, she hastened their departure; but the closing of the carriage door, the last waving of her mother's hand, and Maria's half-uttered adieu, were too much for Sarah's fortitude, --she burst into an agony of tears, which she indulged uninterrupted for many miles. As soon as Lady Barbara perceived that she was recovering, she kindly pointed out various objects of attention on the road, and by degrees drew the young traveller not only from her grief, but her timidity, and thus unlocked the stores of a mind whose intelligence richly repaid the effort. Lady Barbara drew the most pleasing auspices of the future improvement of her protegee, from observing the admirable discrimination, not less than the lively interest which all that was grand and beautiful in nature awakened in her mind; not a plant exhaled its perfume, riot a mountain reared its head, unmarked by her eye, unregistered by her memory. But on their entering London, her thoughts appeared rather to rest on past than delight in present objects; the novelty of the scene had an effect upon her mind equally remote from the stupor of unmoved dulness and the bustle of vulgar surprise; she seemed to view that which she had expected rather than desired--an effect no common mind will feel on first viewing this wonderful metropolis. "Sor did the splendid mansion at which she now stopped excite more than pleasantly-calm sensations in her mind, unmixed with that sense of self-an...