 | Anna Maria Hall - 426 頁
...she not make, what fatigues undergo ! I have met her coming from a small field where oats had bcen sown, with a sheaf on her back, which she had cut with her own fair hands to fced an old bullock, the only remnant of stock that had eseaped the ereditors, and which was destined... | |
 | 1853 - 698 頁
...have met her coming from a small field where oats had been sown, with a sheaf on her back, which slio had cut with her own fair hands to feed an old ox...and almost laughed at her unusual occupation. There wa» a poor Irish girl who staid with her to the last and never forsook her in her adverse fortune,... | |
 | 1853 - 692 頁
...on her arm. So strange a thing is woman's love, that she, whom I had been wont to considerdeciiledly selfish, now showed a generous and heroic devotion...the creditors, and which was destined to supply the househofd with beef the ensuing fall. Yet she wiis quite cheerful and almost laughed at her unusual... | |
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I had been wont to consider decidedly selfish, now showed a generous and heroic devotion towards the man whose thoughtlessness had reduced her to that state of poverty and privation that seemed to make her regardless of poverty. What personal sacrifices... 