Oh! that it should take so long to kill some of us.

It makes me sad to think that so many lives are wrecked in this way, that so many are driven to wrong, that so many others should drift away into lives of hopelessness.

I have been stripped of all, and I am waiting for the worst." Can any language beat that for lucidity and pathos?
My readers will, I am sure, recognise that those are the words of an educated woman.

Yes, her education was begun in England and finished on the Continent.

Were I to mention the name of the writer's mother, hearts would leap, for that name lives in story and song.
But her parents died and left no competence, her health failed, and teaching became impossible.