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sallowness, unhealthiness, narrowness — not 

 even the well-developed physique of the town 

 girl, who has the pavements for her marches 

 and countermarches, I hear, indeed, in sum- 

 mer weather, the tinkle of a piano; but it 

 frights away the wrens; and of the two, I 

 must say that I prefer the wrens. 



All this unfits for thorough sympathy with 

 the every-day life of the father; and when 

 common sympathies do not unite a family, its 

 career breaks at the death of the patron. If 

 there be nothing in the country life which can 

 call out and sustain the pride of all members 

 of the country family, it can never offer tempt- 

 ing career to the young. 



From these causes it is, that Dorothy 

 will very likely grow into a wrinkled-faced old 

 maid, hopeful of anything but the tender long- 

 ing of Overbury's "Faire Milke-Maide." Too 

 instructed to admire the sharp roughnesses of 

 her wiry papa; too liberalized, it may be, by 

 her reading, to bear mildly his peevish close- 

 ness; not kindling into a love of the beauties 

 of nature, because none will sympathize with 

 that love — dreaming over books that carry her 

 to a land of mirage, and make her still more 

 unfit for the every day duties of life;— not 

 recognizing the heroism of successful struggle 



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