IN a distant part of the kingdom, and remote from any populous place, a venerable lady, a widow, spent her days in the most rational manner, by dividing her time between her domestic, her social, and her religious duties. Her fortune was not considera...
IN a distant part of the kingdom, and remote from any populous place, a venerable lady, a widow, spent her days in the most rational manner, by dividing her time between her domestic, her social, and her religious duties. Her fortune was not considerable, but it was sufficient to enable her to live in a genteel, and, as she was blessed with a very benevolent disposition, the annually appropriated a part of it to the relief of those among her neighbours, who under the pressures of poverty, sickness, or sorrow, stood most in need of her assistance.