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A Castaway

Augusta Webster

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Description:"A wild whim that, to fancy I could changemy new self for my old, because I wished!Since then, when in my languid days there comesthat craving, like homesickness, to go backto the good days, the dear old stupid days,to the quiet and the innocence, I know’tis a sick fancy and try palliatives.What is it? You go back to the old home,and ’tis not your home, has no place for you,and, if it had, you could not fit you in it.And could I fit me to my former self?""I could have lived by that rule, how content:my pleasure to make him some pleasure, prideto be as he would have me, duty, care,to fit all to his taste, rule my small sphereto his intention; then to lean on him,be guided, tutored, loved — no not that word,that loved which between men and women meansall selfishness, all putrid talk, all lust,all vanity, all idiocy — not lovedbut cared for. I’ve been loved myself, I think,some once or twice since my poor mother died,but cared for, never: — that a word for homes,kind homes, good homes, where simple children comeand ask their mother is this right or wrong,because they know she’s perfect, cannot err;their father told them so, and he knows all,being so wise and good and wonderful,even enough to scold even her at timesand tell her everything she does not know.Ah the sweet nursery logic!Fool! thrice fool!do I hanker after that too? Fancy meinfallible nursery saint, live code of law!me preaching! teaching innocence to be good!a mother!"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Castaway. To get started finding A Castaway, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "A wild whim that, to fancy I could changemy new self for my old, because I wished!Since then, when in my languid days there comesthat craving, like homesickness, to go backto the good days, the dear old stupid days,to the quiet and the innocence, I know’tis a sick fancy and try palliatives.What is it? You go back to the old home,and ’tis not your home, has no place for you,and, if it had, you could not fit you in it.And could I fit me to my former self?""I could have lived by that rule, how content:my pleasure to make him some pleasure, prideto be as he would have me, duty, care,to fit all to his taste, rule my small sphereto his intention; then to lean on him,be guided, tutored, loved — no not that word,that loved which between men and women meansall selfishness, all putrid talk, all lust,all vanity, all idiocy — not lovedbut cared for. I’ve been loved myself, I think,some once or twice since my poor mother died,but cared for, never: — that a word for homes,kind homes, good homes, where simple children comeand ask their mother is this right or wrong,because they know she’s perfect, cannot err;their father told them so, and he knows all,being so wise and good and wonderful,even enough to scold even her at timesand tell her everything she does not know.Ah the sweet nursery logic!Fool! thrice fool!do I hanker after that too? Fancy meinfallible nursery saint, live code of law!me preaching! teaching innocence to be good!a mother!"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Castaway. To get started finding A Castaway, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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