title: Maid Arise: Encouragement for the 21st Century Maiden
author: Toni Hutto
description: Toni contentedly lives with her parents and six siblings in rural Northern Idaho. Her foremost passion is her God and Lord, Jesus Christ. Secondly comes her family, whom she loves learning how to serve. Her many other interests include: Sign Language, health, singing, entrepreneurial ventures, teaching and playing with her siblings and of course  writing.
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  An Old Maid's Triumph  
    
  
  
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  # An Old Maid's Triumph
  
  
  ### George Gissing
  
  
  
  
  
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  To this day's event Miss Hurst had looked anxiously forward for no less than
  thirty years. It was just thirty years since time and fate had made her
  dependent for a living upon her own exertions, without the least hope of aid
  from love or duty. Till then — that is, up to her twenty-eighth year — she had
  supported herself, but with frequent hospitality of kinsfolk to make the
  efforts lighter. Now, at eight-and-fifty, she had received from her pupils'
  parents, with all possible kindness of wording, the anticipated notice that
  after next quarter her services would be no more in request. So it had come at
  last, and fervently she thanked Heaven for the courage which enabled her to
  face it with so much composure