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SUCCESS AND FAILURE. 115
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Chapter I. Two Men Sat Together In A Sin...
gave the solemnity of a dying farewell , he was much , moved . His aunt ding——dead— -Dora married to Wyndham—his whole former
life seemed y to float away from his present , which , thus seemed deserted and lonely . He was quite upsetand as soon as he returned
, to the drawing-room he had a fit of hysterical emotion which so overpowered himand alarmed Dorathat she sent for a physician .
The physician , felt his pulse and sho , ok his head . He prognosti- ; _^ . cated feverbrain feverand strongly recommended he should not be
moved . A , bed was prepared , for him in his aunt ' s house , and Dora installed as head nurse .
Poor Dora ! her heart was overflowing with pity and tenderness . Was it possible that Arthur had loved her so much , that her
engagement with Wyndham should be such a blow to him ? She felt , somehow , guilty . She was remorseful for the happiness which cost
another so much suffering . She vowed to herself she would put away all thoughts of her own blissful prospects till Arthur was
recovered , consoled , and happy again . Wyndham came in the evening . Arthur ' s fever had increased
rapidly , and he was almost delirious . He had so little self-control p hysicall letel y , . that There both was pleasure no strugg and pain le as mastered in healthi him er constitutions rapidly and ,
he was p knocked y down at once andas with all of ushis bodil was the type of his mental condition ; , . He was weak , to strive y
against evil , instantly subdued by it , and afterwards powerless to regain his moral equilibrium / Every illness leffc him weaker in
health , every error more corrupt in heart . In his wanderings , his mention of Dora's and Wyndham ' s name
was very painful to Wyndham . Wyndham was as lenient , candid , and as Dora . Had he been unfortunate enough to rob
Arthur generous of this great happiness which he had hoped to win ? Arthur ' s mournful laments over Dora's falsehood and Wyndham ' s
treachery , stabbed Wyndham to the heart . He was silent , however , and vied with his betrothed in care and attention for the
sufferer . But he resolved to wait Arthur's convalescence , and then to observe if these were the phantasms of fever , or if they were
founded on realities . But he had so unaffected a conviction of his own inferioritin all the gifts which win woman's love , that a
ghastly fear kept y haunting him that perhaps Dora had mistaken her own feelings ; that the admiration of the intellect , the homage
of the imagination was his , the household love of the heart Arthur's . Arthur was seriously ill for some time , but his
convalescence was prolonged by his own will . There was something very soothing to a vanity which had been hurt , ' to exercise the power he
had thus acquired over the happiness of those two beings , whom , he fancied It is , strange had injured how him often . in this world an inferior nature holds in
his an unjust or her anomal hand the y . happ But iness it is well of a that superior the moral being . disci It p would line we seem all
Success And Failure. 115
SUCCESS AND FAILURE . 115
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/43/
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