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Father And Son.
FATHER AND SON .
BY MISS PARDOE .
" Sharper than a serpent's tooth it is , To have a thankless child . "
HOAV well I remember one cold winter evening in the Isle of Wight , Avhich I passed at a cozy and comfortable fire-side , seated on a low stool between Jane Porter and her venerable mother , I will not say IIOAV many , many years ago . Suffice it that I Avas , at the time of which I speak , a girl of about twelve , already terribly tainted by the cacoethes scribendiand looking
, upion the glorious mortal whose name had actuall y figured in print on the title-page of a book , as a being only one degree lower than the angels . How dear and precious to me was the touch of the thin and delicate hand Avhich had called into existence the chivalrous , high-hearted Thaddeus of Warsaw , the heroic Wallace , the magnificent Duke ChristianAvith all their
, attendant train of stately knights and dames , —no myths to me , but as real , as sentient , and as human as my OAVII small self . And Jane Porter was , at that period , as stately as one of her own heroines . Even long years of poverty and struggle had
failed to bend her spirit , or to lessen her self-reliance . Calm and equable by temperament , her resolution , once formed , was immovable ; her charity Avas universal ; her filial devotion unaffectedl y beautiful ; and if past sorroAvs had left deep traces of their passage upon her placid countenance , long , very long ere she passed away for ever , they had by no means robbed it of its
noble and exalted expression . Of her sister I knew but little , and confess that , from Avhat I saAv , I liked her much less . In Jane , who was an admirable conversationist , the chief characteristic Avas an earnest simphcity , which never failed to captivate the attention , and to convince the reason ; Avhile in the studied manner and expressions of
Anna Maria there Avas a perpetual straining after effect , which Avas , to me at least , I confess , —and I had groAvn to womanhood before I made her acquaintance , —peculiarly unpleasant . I Avill quote one instance of this . The tAVO sisters , the friend at whose house Ave were on a A'isit , and myself , ivere seated together in the draAving-room , when two gentlemen , both strangers to our hostess , Avere announced , and remained ivith us a considerable time . On their departure , Anna Maria inquired IIOAV she liked
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Father And Son.
FATHER AND SON .
BY MISS PARDOE .
" Sharper than a serpent's tooth it is , To have a thankless child . "
HOAV well I remember one cold winter evening in the Isle of Wight , Avhich I passed at a cozy and comfortable fire-side , seated on a low stool between Jane Porter and her venerable mother , I will not say IIOAV many , many years ago . Suffice it that I Avas , at the time of which I speak , a girl of about twelve , already terribly tainted by the cacoethes scribendiand looking
, upion the glorious mortal whose name had actuall y figured in print on the title-page of a book , as a being only one degree lower than the angels . How dear and precious to me was the touch of the thin and delicate hand Avhich had called into existence the chivalrous , high-hearted Thaddeus of Warsaw , the heroic Wallace , the magnificent Duke ChristianAvith all their
, attendant train of stately knights and dames , —no myths to me , but as real , as sentient , and as human as my OAVII small self . And Jane Porter was , at that period , as stately as one of her own heroines . Even long years of poverty and struggle had
failed to bend her spirit , or to lessen her self-reliance . Calm and equable by temperament , her resolution , once formed , was immovable ; her charity Avas universal ; her filial devotion unaffectedl y beautiful ; and if past sorroAvs had left deep traces of their passage upon her placid countenance , long , very long ere she passed away for ever , they had by no means robbed it of its
noble and exalted expression . Of her sister I knew but little , and confess that , from Avhat I saAv , I liked her much less . In Jane , who was an admirable conversationist , the chief characteristic Avas an earnest simphcity , which never failed to captivate the attention , and to convince the reason ; Avhile in the studied manner and expressions of
Anna Maria there Avas a perpetual straining after effect , which Avas , to me at least , I confess , —and I had groAvn to womanhood before I made her acquaintance , —peculiarly unpleasant . I Avill quote one instance of this . The tAVO sisters , the friend at whose house Ave were on a A'isit , and myself , ivere seated together in the draAving-room , when two gentlemen , both strangers to our hostess , Avere announced , and remained ivith us a considerable time . On their departure , Anna Maria inquired IIOAV she liked