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I was well acquainted with Ann Yearsley, and my friendship for Hannah More did not blind my eyes to the merits of her opponent. Candour exacts the acknowledgment that the Bristol Milkwoman was a very extraordinary individual.
Yearsley, had come, and Jabez had long since announced that he had no great opinion of him, coming as he did from one of the northern counties. "I don't say but what he may be a nice enough gentleman," he said; "but coming from so far up along it stands to reason he can't know nothing of we or our ailments. I s'pose the master had his reasons for choosing him, but it do seem a pity."
"That we will, Miss Kitty," said Fanny heartily, "and between us all we ought to be able to do things fitty." The strangers, Dr. Yearsley and Mrs. Pike's nurse, made housekeeping a more serious matter certainly, and illness complicated things; but Aunt Pike's reign, though unpleasant in many ways, had made others easier for Kitty. The house was in good order, rules had been made and enforced.
"Oh," cried Kitty, remorseful that she should have forgotten her all this time, "Anna! What a state she must be in about her mother. How is Anna?" "Yes, poor Anna," echoed Dr. Yearsley with a sigh, "she is in a very distressed state. I wish you could calm her, and get her to pull herself together a little." "I will try," said Kitty gravely. "And there is Betty. I am longing to see her."
It was rather a tired, anxious face, but it smiled very kindly at Kitty. "Better now?" asked Dr. Yearsley. "Yes, thank you," whispered Kitty. "How funny!" "I am glad you can see any fun in it," said the doctor with the ghost of a smile. "It is the only funny thing that has happened in this unlucky house for the last day or two. But it isn't the sort of humour I appreciate."
If any judicious friend had stated to her that Ann Yearsley, whom she had so greatly served, was a discreet woman and would not be likely to squander her little all: that she wanted to educate her two sons, and to open for herself a circulating library, neither of which objects could be accomplished without trenching on her capital, no doubt could have been entertained of her instantly acceding to it.
We shall be in time to join them! exclaimed Yearsley, dashing forward. `But we must first search for any who have survived. His previous calmness disappeared as he spoke, and he rushed, through the burning huts, towards one of the buildings.
Yearsley says you mustn't talk any more now," and Kitty, seated in a chair by her aunt's bedside, held her helpless hand lovingly until she had fallen into the easiest sleep she had had yet. By-and-by the nurse came back, and Kitty was free to move. "I think I must go and talk to Fanny now," she thought, and she made her way to the kitchen, thinking very soberly the while.
Ann Yearsley! Sir H. Davy! Hannah More! Robert Hall! Samuel Taylor Coleridge! Charles Lamb! Thomas Poole! Josiah Wade! Robert Southey! and John Foster! confirming, with fresh emphasis, "What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!" Bristol, April 20, 1847. Pantisocracy and Robert Lovell Mr. Southey and Mr. Burnet arrive in Bristol Mr. Coleridge arrives in Bristol
G. Robinson, the bookseller, told me that he had given Ann Yearsley two hundred pounds for the above work, and that he would give her one hundred pounds for every volume she might produce. This sum, with the profits of her Poems, enabled her to set up a circulating library, at the Hot Wells.
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