The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

CHAPTER X.
THE YOUNG LADT FROM HOMR
OT WITHSTANDING all the
voices of wisdom which fall
on childish ears, in the sweet
little home-world, where the
young heart so fearlessly nestles,
our first lessons of life are usually
inaccurate ; our first impressions of
its character and duties obscure and
false.
Peeping out at the windows of
our early home, we see the big world, as a
traveller sees a landscape by the light of a
wailing moon, through pale, midnight
vapors, and it appears to us a romantic scene of
beauty only, fitted solely for our pleasure. But, as
the rising sun wears the fog into " shreds and rifted
masses," whose openings give " glimpse after glimpse
of slow revealed " reality to the wanderer, so does