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1865. [underscored]
August 3rd
Thursday. There is a marked improvement in several of the girls which leads us to hope that
"There is [underscored] in every [underscored] human heart,
some not completely [underscored]barren part
Where seeds of love and truth might grow,
And flowers of generous virtue blow,
To watch, to water there,
This be our duty , this our care."
Friday 4th we have been very short of laundry work, if we might advertise no doubt we should get more. We take in mangling from three families in the neighbourhood. There are a great many in Sydney that dont know about this institution. others, that take for granted that it is connected with the "Good Shepherd" and thus we are passed by unnoticed.
Mr Roberts went to 'Ormande House' to pay our daughters school bill. when Mrs Blaxland gave him 1.1 pounds for the Refuge. "The Revd. Mother" from the G.S. [Good Shepherd] sent to ask admission for a young woman we allowed her to have dinner in the Ivy Cottage together with two others (brought this morng by Mr Gully) to wait the dicition [decision] of the General com.
Saturday
5th Mary Mitchell said if the ladies would not consent to her leaving she would find means to go without it, she would
never do another stitch in this place. Then pretended to be very ill so Matron seeing it was useless and [in] vain to try to keep her. accompanied her to the Good Shepherd, her own place [underscored], for she used to cross herself at our Protistant [Protestant] prayers.