Tawny Rachel / [Z].

  • Z.
Date:
[1815?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tawny Rachel / [Z]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But the more she thought of the fortune-teller, the more she was convinced that brown hair and black eves were not what she was fated to tnarrv, and therefore, though she trembled to think it, Jacob could not be the man. On Sunday she was too uneasy to go to church, for poor Sally had never been taught that her be¬ ing uneasy was only a fresh reason why she ought to go thither. She spent the whole afternoon in her little garret, dressing in all her best First she put on her red ribbon, which . she had bought at last Lammas fair; then she recollected that red was an unlucky color, and changed it fora blue ribbon, tied in a true lover's knot; but suddenly called to mind that poor Jacob had bought this knot for her of a pedlar at the door, and that she had promised to wear it for his sake; her heart smote her, and she laid it by> sighing to think that shejwas not fated to marry the man who had given it to her. When she had looked at herself twenty times in the glass, for one vain action always brings on another, she set off, trembling and quaking every step she went. She walked eagerly towards the church-yard, not daring to look to the right or left, for fear she should spy Jacob, who would have offered to walk with her, and so have spoiled all. As soon as she came within sight of the wall, she spied a man sitting upon it. Her heart beat violently. She looked again; but, alas! the stranger not only had on a black coat, but neither hair nor eyes answered the description. She now happened to cast her eyes on the church clock, arid found she was two hours, before her time. This was some comfort. She walked away, and got rid of the two hours as well as she could, paying great attention as she went 041
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