The Barbadoes Girl

ting of her heart, said, timidly and abruptly, with her eyes fixed on the carpet-"Do you think, ma'am, that if Ellen had e

love and my general indulgences from her; but I should undoubtedly forgive her, because, in the first place, God ha

s worse for an own child to behave il

of insolence and hard-heartedness towards the hand which has reared and fostered us all our lives-which has loved us in despite of ou

to her, and bad to every body about me; many a time have I vexed her on purpose; and when she scolded me, I was so pert and disobedient-you can form no idea how bad I was. If she spoke ever so gently to me, I used to tell my papa she had been scolding me, and then he would blame her and justify me; and many a time I have heard deep sighs, that seemed to come f

long time, listen to the kind voice of her consoler-she could only repeat her own faults, recapitulate all the crimes she had been guilty of, and display, in all their native hideousness, such traits of ill-humour, petulance, ungovernable fury, outrageous passion, and vile r

n and invaluable doctrines which are deducible from them, and evident to the capacity of any sensible child, without leading from the more immediate object of her anxiety; as Mrs. Harewood very justly concluded, that if she s

n the lowest negro to my dear mamma, and once hear her say she forgave me, I could be comforted

now, though your mother is absent, the ears of your heavenly Father are ever open to your sorrows; and that, if you lament your sins to him, he will assuredly accept your repentance, and dispose the heart of your dear mother to accept it also. I sincerely pity you, n

self much more happy now than she had ever been in her life; yet she had never so few indulgences-she had no slaves to wait on her, no little black children to execute her commands and submit to her temper; she was not coaxed to the dainties of a luxurious table, nor had costly clothes spread before her to court her choice, nor any foolish friend to repeat all she said, as if she were a prodigy of wit and talent; and all these things, she well remembered, were accorded to her as a kind of inheritance in Barbadoes; but, along with them, she remembered having violent passions