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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PART I INDIA
- I JULY 17TH, 1826—JANUARY 3RD, 1827
- II JANUARY 3RD—FEBRUARY 25TH, 1827
- III FEBRUARY 25TH—APRIL 22ND, 1827
- IV APRIL 23RD—AUGUST 13TH, 1827
- V AUGUST 14TH—NOVEMBER 3OTH, 1827
- VI DECEMBER IST—15TH, 1827
- VII DECEMBER 16TH, 1827—APRIL 2ND, 1828
- VIII APRIL 3RD—MAY 10TH, 1828
- IX MAY 10TH—SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1828
- X SEPTEMBER 22ND—DECEMBER 13TH, 1828
- PART II ISLE OF FRANCE
- PART III TASMANIA
IV - APRIL 23RD—AUGUST 13TH, 1827
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PART I INDIA
- I JULY 17TH, 1826—JANUARY 3RD, 1827
- II JANUARY 3RD—FEBRUARY 25TH, 1827
- III FEBRUARY 25TH—APRIL 22ND, 1827
- IV APRIL 23RD—AUGUST 13TH, 1827
- V AUGUST 14TH—NOVEMBER 3OTH, 1827
- VI DECEMBER IST—15TH, 1827
- VII DECEMBER 16TH, 1827—APRIL 2ND, 1828
- VIII APRIL 3RD—MAY 10TH, 1828
- IX MAY 10TH—SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1828
- X SEPTEMBER 22ND—DECEMBER 13TH, 1828
- PART II ISLE OF FRANCE
- PART III TASMANIA
Summary
17th July 1827.—Bankipore (near Patna).—One year to-day since I embarked for India; surely, my dearest friend, the misery of a whole existence has been compressed into that period of time. One year! Can it be that I have suffered so much in one year, or rather in three months?
I do not ask your sympathy or attempt to describe my bereavement, well knowing that you will feel for me beyond what I could wish; in truth, if I wanted to express to you my situation or my feelings, I could not. I seem to be surrounded by dreams, shadows, recollections, like the waves of the sea beneath a midnight sky, darkness without diversity. Hopeless, my sinking heart endeavours to comprehend why the hand of God has dealt with me thus heavily! Again and again I ask myself—‘What am I? what has one day made me?’
I know and believe the dispensation is from the hand of my Heavenly Father, who has dried up my source of temporal happiness, perhaps because I loved the creature more than the Creator. I may yet be enabled to attain resignation, and perceive that even in His wrath there is mercy; but oh! the dreary present! I may have years of existence to linger through. What is to become of me? How strange seems the capability of enduring that is sometimes given us, when I look back on even the bodily suffering of the last three months.
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- The Journal of Mrs FentonA Narrative of Her Life in India, the Isle of France (Mauritius) and Tasmania During the Years 1826–1830, pp. 88 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010