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 Lady Harriet would be left at home, 1 wished to stay, that I might be near her; but at length the guardians consented that she should go with her sister; so I was at once bereft of them all.

Thus have I been suddenly, in the course of a few months, deprived of all my earthly comforts, and thrown from a state of ease and luxury, into a state of comparative indigence. But how ungrateful should I be to God, were I to repine! How rich would my poor mother have thought herself with thirty pounds a year! Nay, with the half of that sum. Ill would it then become me to murmur at the wise dispensations of Providence, which have doubtless been ordered not less in wisdom than in mercy. My first thoughts were to go into a lodging in London, and take in needlework, by which I should be able to earn a sufficiency for the supply of all my wants. But, from being unable to take exercise, good air has become so essential to my health, that I dreaded the