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    280 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE.

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    keys in music . His characteristics were height and fineness y practical not robus life tness , He or had the perhap qualities sthat which sweetness lead which to success is some in - ,

    . thing' akin to . weakness , ; but much , in him which , superficially the considered excess , of tenderness ght seem . like He was timen tender talism as a woman , in truth , but as

    the best of women . No manI believeever lived who ; aye , mor sacrifice e utterl was y the unworldl law y . of his Every , being aim . , was Quite hig unselfish h , and s and elf- I

    t chivalrous hose golden , he sp seemed irits , whick to me fancy like p laces of in those past , ideal wor t t imes hies , ,

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    from the canvas and walk and act amongst modern men . I bu Such t defec h t t no as he may to have others had . , His broug nature ht , woe was upon I think himself too , I I

    delica wroug te and highl wrong y wrought for happiness in this , rough world , . I alt W houg ith h in ghtl his y later honour he had all some pride thing was chastened knightly to pride the , I I

    Christian valour of hum years ility . His want of hope was a I deficiency of temperament . There was in his character some- I

    him sensibili what of ty has the , and been Hamlet irresolu said strain tion of ano . th of Perh er over ap that s - , refining too he , thoug it may doub ht be t too , morbid said much of I I I

    and , too deeply , ever to think to much , purpose . In his deeds , I duty was his guiding t - ht star : gifted with t the t " single t t eye , " he I

    cared only for he rig , and never sopped o counhe cost , I du or ty give on the thoug path ht of to conscience the consequences He had of following the finest the touch star of of I I

    . and graceful feelings courtesy of others , and : the and tenderes so he bore t cons without ideration abuse for the rights I I

    " The grand old name of gentleman . " I h But is charac it should ter never that be it had forgotten been in warped endeavouring and wrenched to estimate by i I

    circumstance . , The brain had been overstrained by hard work I and heavy sorrow . As well expect symmetry of form from a I

    man who as has expect been subjected erfect symmetry by the Inquisition of mind to from the so torture hih of a I I

    nature pressure as , that of my p uncle Eoland , after so many years' slavery g I in the mines of business . The want of self-relianceof self- I

    possession depression , of was his doubtlessly one and generated twenty-years in the of slow long martyrdom haras , s and . I I

    hung The lassitude 1 round him of ill during -health all , caused the years by I the knew sam him e weary . struggle , I I

    280 The Record Of A Vanished Life.

    280 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/44/