The wanderings of a pen and pencil . themiserable creature. Few sympathised with her sufferings, and the poor-house was pointed to as the only shelter. The old rejected lover (myfriend) was farming here; he was still single, for he loved her in absence * On ancient seals Bishops are figured with the pastoral staff in the left hand, Abbotsare represented as holding it in the right. The Bishop wears his mitre the broadside Abbot wears it with the horns in front. 240 WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. as when she was a girl; toujours le meme ! He allowed her a cottage,and a weekly mainten
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . themiserable creature. Few sympathised with her sufferings, and the poor-house was pointed to as the only shelter. The old rejected lover (myfriend) was farming here; he was still single, for he loved her in absence * On ancient seals Bishops are figured with the pastoral staff in the left hand, Abbotsare represented as holding it in the right. The Bishop wears his mitre the broadside Abbot wears it with the horns in front. 240 WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. as when she was a girl; toujours le meme ! He allowed her a cottage,and a weekly maintenance for life, taking good thought and care that thelove, which he called charity, should never be known to her as proceedingfrom his own benevolence. After a lonesome miserable life she died, andthen he buried her; and the tears which he had been used to shed, when hesaw her poor blind eyes rolling in vacancy upon the Sabbath in the ruralsanctuary, were doubled daily, long after her wasted form was buried in tliissimple churchyard!. CHAPTER IX.
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