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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Lucy Larcom
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There
they
all
stood
again
side
by
side
on
their
shelves,
the
dear,
dull,
good
old
volumes
that
all
my
life
I
had
tried
in
vain
to
take
a
sincere
Sabbath-day
interest
in,--Scott's
Commentaries
on
the
Bible,
Hervey's
"Meditations,"
Young's
"Night
Thoughts,"
"Edwards
on
the
Affections,"
and
the
Writings
of
Baxter
and
Doddridge.
Besides
these,
there
were
bound
volumes
of
the
"Repository
Tracts,"
which
I
had
read
and
re-read;
and
the
delightfully
miscellaneous
"Evangelicana,"
containing
an
account
of
Gilbert
Tennent's
wonderful
trance;
also
the
"History
of
the
Spanish
Inquisition,"
with
some
painfully
realistic
illustrations;
a
German
Dictionary,
whose
outlandish
letters
and
words
I
liked
to
puzzle
myself
over;
and
a
descriptive
History
of
Hamburg,
full
of
fine
steel
engravings--which
last
two
or
three
volumes
my
father
had
brought
with
him
from
the
countries
to
which
he
had
sailed
in
his
sea-faring
days.
A
complete
set
of
the
"Missionary
Herald",
unbound,
filled
the
upper
shelves.
Other
familiar
articles
journeyed
with
us:
the
brass-headed
shovel
and
tongs,
that
it
had
been
my
especial
task
to
keep
bright;
the
two
card-tables
(which
were
as
unacquainted
as
ourselves
with
ace,
face,
and
trump);
the
two
china
mugs,
with
their
eighteenth-century
lady
and
gentleman
figurines
curiosities
brought
from
over
the
sea,
and
reverently
laid
away
by
my
mother
with
her
choicest
relics
in
the
secretary-desk;
my
father's
miniature,
painted
in
Antwerp,
a
treasure
only
shown
occasionally
to
us
children
as
a
holiday
treat;
and
my
mother's
easy-chair,--I
should
have
felt
as
if
I
had
lost
her,
had
that
been
left
behind.
The
earliest
unexpressed
ambition
of
my
infancy
had
been
to
grow
up
and
wear
a
cap,
and
sit
in
an
easy-chair
knitting
and
look
comfortable
just
as
my
mother
did.
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