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bathing journey. That honest fello#v, De Goesse, deserved better
treatment, by rny sorti! Well, here the rnatter is ended–and
she will bave te die an old maid."
Amelia was far frein partaking of ber father’s iii-humour. She
thought that surely there were more rnen in the world, "and if
I find none as I wish him, I de net think I will die immediately.
There are a great rnany things which a woman can de, if she is
single, by which she cun take herself through the world. For
instance, you can establish a school in a country village–but
that is certainly tedious. Or you can become a governess–to be
one I bave no great desire either. Or a housekeel#er–if I should
be that, and anything should go wrong, I would bave the whole
bouse upon me, and a dozen reproaches frein the lady and
rnaster of the bouse, into the bargain. Te work as a cornrnon
overseer of the fernale servants on a noble estate–that would be
too troublesorne. Perhaps it would be more prudent te open a
weaving establishrnent, or sorne other rnanuçacturing institution,
for the purpose of instructing young girls–that is net se bad,
and might be listened te; but, good Lord, te carry out such an
idea, one requires rnoney; and until I had earned that, rnany a
drop of water would bave run into the sea. I hardly think that
#nything would corne of the rnatter; and it is hard, surely, te
work for one’s bread. But why should a person look out for
the next day at all? If will be rime enough for that, when I
ana an old rnaid#then advice will corne of itself, and there wfll
always be a way te get a living. In the rneantîme#" These
words our Arnelia did nog even lisp ; but ber little lîps were
moulded into a roguish stalle.
In the year 1833, there #vas net se much talk of the ernanci-
pation of wornen, as new. But, in the rneantime, Amelia’s ex-
pressions rnight have sprung frein that source which, as a
whole, sounded rnuch more natural than the self-deceiving pre-
tensions that one is obliged offert #o hear, namely: tl#_at a single
wornan leads the happiest Iife.
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