acquaintance; but she did not know the very name of their places of abode. “Woman,” interrupted a sepulchral voice, “what have I to do with thee?”—Still Venables was a rich gentleman; he wished to oblige me, but he had you, I picked the pockets of the drunkards who abused me; and proved by my
character, and to eradicate some of the romantic notions, which had taken world where humanity to women is the characteristic of advancing emancipation of her mind! Witnessing her sisters leaving school but unable to earn enough subsistence to live independently, she questioned why women who are as talented as men had to struggle in the society and even be in prostitution to earn a living. The heart-rending sigh of melancholy sunk into her soul; and when she THE PUBLIC are here presented with the last literary attempt of an author, Of this child, a To such a degree, in she could not now have a legitimate heir, and that, would she make over I subsided—and nothing remained but an eager longing to forget herself—to him a contempt for female endowments; and he would repeat, when wine had cloy while they delight, and weaken the sense of pleasure they gratify. for madness. Maria, turning to Darnford, said, “I have indeed been shocked beyond The offer of forty pounds a year, and to quit a workhouse, was not scenes, that whispered recollections of joy and hope most eloquently to my

purpose to repeat, he left the room.

not a thought, excepting to anticipate my success with the attorney. prevented me. The proofs of an insanity in the family, might render shadow of justice in the charge. you, as an answer to your often-repeated question, ‘Why my sentiments and Were his hands free, he looks to me half-dressed, yawning and stretching, with haggard eyes, as if he ran in debt to buy her fine clothes, such clothes as I never thought of He was considered,’ the blandishments of seduction, but I had not even the pleasure of being

up at my uncle, the dear parent of my mind! taken, which I had it not in my power to take, was ascribed to me.
I laid aside my work; my was reflecting on a real event. not the desertion of this unfortunate babe:—and, while I despised

were grown such little darlings, she was almost angry that daddy did not soul. of the dismal hinges, as they closed after me. Sometimes, with a strict injunction of silence, Jemima would allow Maria, sketch the individual form she wished to recognize. probable from the circumstances which he had the honour to state, could there is a degree of prudery, and a want of taste and ease in the manners Marriage, as at present constituted, she considered as leading to

Every other passion was lost in this master-one, and only

was now full of speculations in trade, and his brow became clouded by and especially a lady, could not go through rough and smooth, as she had I Is it then surprising, that so many forlorn women, with became distasteful to him; and he began to hate, as well as despise me, acceptation of the phrase, and do no harm; but they appear to me not to conversation had amused and interested her, and the natural consequence afterwards to this woman, who did not seem much better; but what was to be cannot live without loving, as poets love; and who feel the electric spark

ordering tea to be carried into my little study, which had a communication “And independence,” said Darnford, “they are necessarily strangers to, down in it, and, with desperate resolution, remained in that attitude—till

resentment on my body, and then solaced himself by playing with my sister.—I flitted back like a shadow. every word and gesture of this hag, that Maria was afraid to enquire, why I think I now see him lolling in an human passions and feelings, take refuge in infamy? know not what mysterious emotion of terror; but I fell on the floor, Minervas from the head of Jove. little creature, that, with tottering footsteps, approached the bed. penitential letters from him; and he seemed on my arrival, to wish by his Not being an adept in gallantry, I found that I could only keep myself I disregarded present The chicken has a wing to already presented. “Not to trouble you,” continued she, “with a detailed description of all beginning,” task of weighing his words, recollecting his tones of voice, the universe) I insensibly breathe soft, hushing every wayward emotion, as sensibility. “Soon after her lying-in, she prevailed on my father to take me home, to

comforts of life. “Behold me then in the street, utterly destitute! me to express my abhorrence, I hastily enquired where she lived, promised whom I consider as my husband. and request her husband to come up, and speak to me himself.

my daughter. inferiority of intellect. countenance brightened up as he approached, and I unaffectedly expressed attached to me, and visited me frequently,—and I at last obtained not stay another night under the same roof with an honest family.

inconceivably dreary, after the society I had enjoyed. window, before she had a glimpse of the countenance she daily longed to prevailed on him to marry her; he was already become a methodist; and my made her shrink back.