CHAP. I.] Early Recollections. 17 



appearance among them. The visit was a very 

 brief one, offering no hope of any intention to settle 

 in Hanover; the father was well aware that he 

 at least could not look forward to another meeting 

 on earth, while to the poor little unnoticed girl, this 

 visit and its attendant circumstances stood out in 

 her memory as fraught with anguish, which even 

 her unskilled pen succeeds in representing as a grief 

 almost too deep for words. 



" Of the joys and pleasures which all felt at this long- 

 wished-for meeting with my let me say my dearest 

 brother, but a small portion could fall to nry share ; for 

 with my constant attendance at church and school, besides 

 the time I was employed in doing the drudgery of the 

 scullery, it was but seldom I could make one in the group 

 when the family were assembled together. 



" In the first week some of the orchestra were invited 

 to a concert, at which some of niy brother William's com- 

 positions, overtures, &c., and some of my eldest brother 

 Jacob's were performed, to the great delight of my dear 

 father, who hoped and expected that they would be turned 

 to some profit by publishing them, but there was no printer 

 who bid high enough. 



" Sunday the 8th was the to me eventful day of my 

 confirmation, and I left home not a little proud and en- 

 couraged by my dear brother William's approbation of my 

 appearance in my new gown." 



Not only was she disappointed in her fervent hope 

 that the longed-for brother would not come at the 

 very time when she was obliged to be much from 



