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| In this republicanIn this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody it always at the drowning-point. Tlie tragedy is enacted with as continual a repetition at that of a popular drama on a holiday, and, neverthekss, i» felt as deeply, perhaps, ai when an hereditary nohk sinks below his order. More jimmy choo deeply, since, with us. rank is the grosser substance of wealth and a Cheap Timberland Boots tplendid establishment, and has no spiritual existence after the death of these, but dies hopelessly along with them. And, therefore, since we have been unfortunate enough to introduce our heroine at to jimmy choo shoes inauspicious a juncture, Timberland Boots we would eittreat for a mood of due solemnity in the spectators of her fate. Let us behold, in poor Hepzibah, the immemorial, lady—two hundred rears old, on this side of the water. and thrice at many on the other,—with her antique portraits, pedigrees, coot sot amis record* anil traditions, and her claim, an joint lieirew, In thai princely territory at the eastward, no longer a wilderness but a populous fertility.—born. too. in Pyncheon Street, under the Pyncheon Kim. and in the Pyi>cheon I louse, where die lias spent all her days,—reduced. Now, in that very house, to be ihe huckstered of a ccnt-shop. This business of setting up a jimmy choo uggs petty «hop is almost the only resource of women, in circumstances ai all similar to those of our unfortunate recluse. With her near- sighlednes*, and llinse tremulous linger* of hers, at since inflexible and Timberland Boots Outlet delicate, she could not be a seamstress; although ha sam¬pler. of fifty years gone by. exhibited some of the most recondite specimens of ornamental needlework. A school tor little children had been often in her thoughts; and. at one time, tbe had begun a review of her early stud¬ies in the New England Primer, with a view to prepare herself for the oflUc of Timberland Outlet Timberland Boots for Men instructress. But the love of children had never Timberland Boots for Women been quickened in Hep/.ibahV heart, and wa* now torpid, if not extinct; she watched the little people of the neighborhood from her chamber-window, and doubted whether she could tolerate a more intimate acquaintance with them. Be¬sides, in our das, the very ABC ha* become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to ltttrr A modern child could teach old Hcpzibah more than old Hcpzibah could teach the child. So—with many a cold, deep heart-quake at the isJea of at Last com¬ing into sordid contact with ihe world, from which *he had so long kepi aloof, while every added day of seclusion h*J polled another stone against the cavern door of her hermitage—the poor thing bethought herself of the ancienl indow, the rusty scales, and dusty tilt. She might have held back a little longer, but another circumstance, not yet hinted at, had some¬what hastened her decision. | |
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