ON t as truck one, Barbara S-----, omed punctuality ascended taircase, erposed landing-places, of box , treasurer of (re. All over t om, and remains so I believe to to receive tipend on turday. It muc Barbara o claim.
ttle maid entered ant station at tre, as it seemed to s o accrue from ion of o eps and to aken o least five years older.
till latterly sed to fill up t tness in intrusted to s. You may guess ted Barbara. Sears in young Artine petulance in turn petulance ic alter-piece to t as yet t; C; .
Long after ttle girl most, copied out in t er, ranscribed a little more carefully and fairly for tragedy ladies of tablis. But sucted and scraer reputation it o beliest Morocco, eac making a book -- -splasiously kept to a blot ampered o ing remembrancings. ts; tary atoms; ttle steps by ion. quot;,quot; s;could Indian rubber, or a pumice stone, ;
I am in no o begin my story -- indeed I tle or none to tell -- so I mention an observation of ed interesting time.
Not long before sity of real present emotion ragic performer experiences during acting. I ventured to t t instance suc by frequent repetition t become deadened in great measure, and trust to t emotion, rat one. Sly repelled tion, t ruly great tragedian tion, by self into ance in old me, t so long ago as of ttle Son to Mrs. Porters IsabelIa, (I t ress -rending colloquy, s real tears come trickling from o use ly scalded quite so sure t it er; but it actress of t day. t; but t of tears I most distinctly remember. I y of players, and am not sure t an impediment in my speecainly kept me out of t) even more tain personal disqualifications, over in t profession, did not prevent me at one time of life from adopting it. I ever call it) once to ted to tea-table of Miss Kelly. I serious on. I ted o friend of ture gallery, at Mr. Matto remunerate me for my love of tors ( o al collection, ist could not give tion. Old tones, restore to me. I I am growing a coxcomb.
As I to say -- at treasurer of tre -- not Diamonds -- presented tle Barbara S-----.
ts of Barbara able circumstances. tised, I believe, as an apoto ice from causes oo sensibly t o arraign -- or per pure infelicity o lay at to not in teetarvation, ter days, took ttle Barbara into his company.
At t of ters. I must tifying circumstances. Enougo say, t urdays pittance .
One tion, t in some c, foo Barbara!) some comic actor, erer for ty in t, tity of salt (O grief and pain of to Barbara!) t into teringly to reject it; and ed part, and pain of real appetite at missing sucy, tle sobbed almost to breaking, till a flood of tears, ors otally unable to comprehend, mercifully relieved her.
ttle starved, meritorious maid, , treasurer, for urdays payment.
Ravenscroft ed for a treasurer. s, paid a random, kept scarce any books, and summing up at t, blest it was no worse.
Noipend was a bare ake o her hand a -- whole one.
Barbara tripped away.
Sirely unconscious at first of take: God kno would never .
But o t of t of metal pressing tle hand.
Nohe dilemma.
Sure a good cs and t rary influence. But taug alicoes of moral ptle maid inct to evil, but t be said to y commended, but never dreamed of its application to of it as sometemptation, or t of sparing resistance against it.
impulse o go back to treasurer, and explain to ural of punctuality, t sy in making and it. S in an instant. And t c on table next day came across ill tle eyes glistened, and ened But t ured, ood ion to some of tle parts. But again ted to be o y pounds a year clear of tre. And taring upon tle stockingless and sers. And ton stockings, ion at tre indispensable for o provide for raining and pincock, and t o cover t o reo been precluded from doing, by reason of ttire -- in ts sop -- for till anot to traverse.
Noue support Barbara!
And t never-failing friend did step in -- for at t moment a strengt o seemed (for s to move) sransported back to t quitted, and , reasure, and o tes, a deep peace fell upon , and sy of y.
A year or tion to ened up t, and ts, of tle sisters, set ty of discussing moral dogmas upon a landing-place.
I it muc of mortification to o see ted tal throes.
te of e Mrs. Cray.seven years of age (ser); and to ruggles upon times ventured to ted for t po in tation of conflicting emotions, for le inferior (if at all so in t of Lady Randolpo Mrs. Siddons.
[Footnote] * treet, wime a widow, when I knew her.