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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 61
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The Lady Of La Macmillan Garaye. & B Co ...
Th & odore" but with inaccuracies which . Mrs . Norton notes in her preface . It is slight in incident ; hardly a story , rather an inner history
of domestic love and sorrow , setting * forth with a charming picture of innocent mirth and happiness _, —the young Count and Countess
joining in the _eliase together amidst a fair woodland scene , which when they
" Chased entered by the , g g loom low of passed tlieir intense of sig d eli , ght . " To some acute association , hardly perceptible to the general
reader , ( and therefore in a work of art to be regretted , ) of evil speaking " as a blight likely to fall on youth , beauty and innocence , we
. are indebted to a passage anent slander , very nobly thought and _corded : —
" To What set hath his life the slandered untarnished done , who lives vainl ? y strives Whose bitter cry among for justice only fills
Who The myriad hears for echoes evermore lost amon the self g life -same ' s hills lie Clank To climb dog above -like at the his loathl heel when he in would things try
Whose venom poisons , and y whose creep fur g y stings , A The nd old so slides witch back , Malice ; for , hiss ever with doomed serpent to hear leer
Hel The ped old , h ifcmay ard falsehood be , by some to the trad old uc bad ing friend , , Xiearned Or one rocked in the with art of him wh on one to smite mother him ' s breas best t , —
ere . 6 What we must suffer , proves not what was done : ' So Tou taug chin ht the the bl G i nd of man Heaven ' s ees ' s anointed id a crowd Son ,
g y 6 The ignorant blind , or seethin else g his hearts parents who had cried offended aloud . — 'That was Man ' s preaching ; God that preaching mended .
F But ixed whatsoe and ' er oint we e suffer d b , the being heavenl still will Behoves us bear p with y atience as we y ,
py The potter ' s moulding of our helpless clay . " The fearful accident which leaves the Lady of Garaye bereft of
beauty and health , a suffering , helpless cripple , dreading in this . great loss a greater loss still—the love of her husband—is all
thrilltenderness ingly and charming of a woman ly told —few . men The in Count the ' hey s tenderness day " p f life is would like the so
feel and speak ; or so feeling and speaking , under the first awestruck influence of a terrible calamity , would , in after-life , more
than redeem the'pledge then given . These passages are exquisitely tender and beautifuland breathe a spirit of pure love .
Very beautiful , also * , is the description of the lady ' s despair when _, told her doom by the old physician : —
" Fro Never m li agai so n . ! loth When the bitter first that truth sentence to tell fell Death seemed ps the balance of its burdening , care ,
The only end of such a strange despair .
Notices Of Books. 61
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 61
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/61/
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