Identifier: friendlyfacesoft00beth (find matches)
Title: Friendly faces of three nationalities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dauntless, frank, and mild,Was, for his very goodness, feard; Beloved with fondness like a child,And like a blessed saint revered. I have known friends, but who can feelThe kindness such a father knew ! I served him still with tender zeal, But knew not then how much was due ! Some years ago her pretty song, Manuel, I donot shed a tear, translated into Latin and pub-lished by an academic journal, was forwarded tome by an anonymous correspondent. How happywould such a compliment have rendered theauthor! But Matilda Betham knew neither envy norrepining. The common things of life did not atall trouble her. One day a caller found herlunching, rather dining, at mid-day, off a friedherring and a pineapple, offering of some opulentfriend ! The complacency with which she wassitting down to both gave the key to her character.Both the herrings and pineapples of life, figura-tively speaking, were taken as matters of course. 40 Ill AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS Egyptologist, Novelist^ Artist, Musician
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Ill AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS Fresh in my mind as if it happened yesterdayis the recollection of our first meeting in mychildhoods home, Westerfield Hall, Ipswich—herself just entering her teens, the countrycousin, a child in the nursery. Visits from unclesand aunts were great occasions at that time, andalways prepared for by a grand baking of cakes,rusks and apple turnovers; the family silver andchina would be got out, and besides tea of thestrongest and best served with cream, old harvestbeer, clear as sherry and twice as strong, hampickled at home after elaborate Suffolk fashionin strong home-brewed, spice and sugar, pottedmeats—of course home-made also—and otherdainties, light and substantial, regaled the guests. Next moon, or the moon after next, was theway in which invitations were given and accepted.When folks had to drive ten or twelve miles 43 Friendly Faces across country, often through fields and lanes,they paid visits either in the longest days of theyear or when the

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