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MADONNA'S CHILDHOOD.
In the autumn of 1838, Mrs.Blyth's malady had for some time past assumed the permanent form from which it seldom afterwards varied.

She now suffered little actual pain, except when she quitted a recumbent posture.

But the general disorganization produced by almost exclusive confinement to one position, had, even at this early period, begun to work sad changes in her personal appearance.

She suffered that mortifying misfortune just as bravely and resignedly as she had suffered the first great calamity of her incurable disorder.