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Fidelity in love for fidelity's sake had less attraction for her than for rip had much A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern gli years On this head she knew by prevision what most women learn only by experience--she had mentally walked round love, told the towers thereof, considered its palaces, and concluded that love was but a doleful joy Yet she desired it, as one in a desert would be thankful for brackish water

She often repeated her prayers; not at particular times, but, like the unaffectedly devout, when she desired to pray Her prayer was always spontaneous, and often ran thus, "O deliver reat love froods were William the Conqueror, Strafford, and Napoleon Buonaparte, as they had appeared in the Lady's History used at the establishment in which she was educated Had she been a mother she would have christened her boys such names as Saul or Sisera in preference to Jacob or David, neither of whom she admired At school she had used to side with the Philistines in several battles, and had wondered if Pontius Pilate were as handsoirl of sohed in relation to her situation ainal Her instincts towards social non-comformity were at the root of this In the matter of holidays, her rass, enjoy looking upon their kind at work on the highway She only valued rest to herself when it came in the midst of other people's labour Hence she hated Sundays when all was at rest, and often said they would be the death of her To see the heathmen in their Sunday condition, that is, with their hands in their pockets, their boots newly oiled, and not laced up (a particularly Sunday sign), walking leisurely a the week, and kicking them critically as if their use were unknoas a fearful heaviness to her To relieve the tedium of this untirandfather's old charts and other rubbish, huht ballads of the country people the while But on Saturday nights she would frequently sing a psalm, and it was always on a weekday that she read the Bible, that sheher duty