The Gem a Christmas And New Years Present volume 1840
The Gem a Christmas And New Years Present volume 1840
John Charles Carlile
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The old man replied that he had seen better days The unbidden tears sprang to the eyes of poor Bertha. And when his career was arrested by misfor- tunes, which he could neither avert nor sustain, he became a day-labourer in the fields ; and when at length he lost his sight Here Bertha's tears fell faster than before. He applied without scruple to the overseers of the poor. He confessed that at first he did enter- tain some feelings of unnatural pride ; but when he began to "reason with himself,... " as he termed it, he came to the conclusion, that there were far more pitiable objects in the world than a cheerful old man in a poor-house, manfully seeking that protection which the legal provisions of his country afford to those who are incapable of maintaining themselves. But, after all, when he did become an inmate, he found that he could not endure the confinement; his soul grew anxious for the freshness of her native fields the sunshine and the showers were linked with her exist- BERTHA CLERVILLE.
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