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"You are not, I should judge by your accent, of this country
originally?" said the Lord Keeper, in continuation.
"No; I am by birth an Englishwoman." "Yet you seem attached to this
country as if it were your own."
"It is here," replied the blind woman, "that I have drank the cup of joy
and of sorrow which Heaven destined for me. I was here the wife of an
upright and affectionate husband for more than twenty years; I was here
the mother of six promising children; it was here that God deprived me
of all these blessings; it was here they died, and yonder, by yon ruined
chapel, they lie all buried. I had no country but theirs while they
lived; I have none but theirs now they are no more."
"But your house," said the Lord Keeper, looking at it, "is miserably
ruinous?"
"Do, my dear father," said Lucy, eagerly, yet bashfully, catching at the
hint, "give orders to make it better; that is, if you think it proper."
"It will last my time, my dear Miss Lucy," said the blind woman; "I
would not have my lord give himself the least trouble about it.


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