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Updated: May 26, 2025
Then he writ under it, upon a marble stone these verses following: This the head of him, whose name only In former times did pilgrims terrify. His Castle's down; and Diffidence, his wife, Brave Master Great-heart has bereft of life. Despondency, his daughter Much-afraid, Great-heart for them also the man has play'd; Who hereof doubts, if he'll but cast his eye Up hither, may his scruples satisfy.
Now, Christiana, if need was, could play upon the viol, and her daughter Mercy upon the lute; and, since they were so merry disposed, she played them a lesson, and Mr. Ready-to-halt would dance. So he paid a boy a penny to hold one of his crutches, and, taking Miss Much-afraid by the hand, to dancing they went.
Did you ever know a family, or, rather, the relics of a family, where there was just a decrepit old father and a lone daughter left to nurse him through his second childhood? All his other children are either married or dead; but both marriage and death have spared Miss Much-afraid to watch over the dotage-days of Mr.
When she was a tiny, weeny thing she was always crying and fretful. Father tells us that she cannot help it, but he never says so to her; he laughs and calls her 'Little Miss Much-Afraid. Hatty is full of fear. She cannot see a mouse, as I tell her, without looking round the corner for pussy's claws." "Is Hatty your only sister, Miss Lambert?" "Oh, no; there are three more.
I don't want to get well, Bessie. I should have all the old, miserable feelings over again. I have been 'Little Miss Much-Afraid' all my life, and the fears have been a part of me. Do you recollect what Bunyan said about Much-Afraid? 'She went through the river singing; that was because she had left all her fears and troubles on the bank." "And you are not afraid to die, Hatty?"
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