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318 THE PORTRAIT.
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Waiking Attention ' Was One Attracted Su...
Disant tout treniblante , " Damon nion cher ainant , ton amante !
Tu revois " A la voix de la fille Danion perd la raison _,
II veut forcer la grille , Ou bruler la maison ; Et , pour le retenir ,
II De faut lui qu faire ' on obtenir lui prornette ! Sa constante Henriette .
Le vieux baron arrive Pour la profession ;
XJne amitie si vine .
! Lui fait compassion ; Lie voila consentant
De signer 1 ' alliance , II veut des ce moment Combler leur esperance .
U on fit ce mariage Tout en sblennite , Lieur parents de tout age ,
Chacun s ' y est trouvee . Apres tant de douleurs De traverses et de g _^ nes
1 / on unit ces deux cceurs , ,
Recompensant leur peines .
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» CHAPTER VII . A seau . ch into motives Is at all times a hazardous employment ,
and more especially so when the searclier suffers acutely from the effects of certain actions practised towards him by the person , be
lie friend or foe , "whose motives he wishes to draw forth from their hiding places . In dark or embittered hours those researches are
usually attempted , and the common result is to hit upon a reason or motive as dark colored as are the thoughts of the sufferer ;
consequently the unseen springs of action , the mental levers , assume a frightful aspect , and are supposed to be evil in their attributes .
In fact , the wrong is oftener hit upon than the right cause ; for how can beings but indifferently enlightened , in inany cases , as to their own motivesfind out by speculation those of others ?
Among the absurd , insinuations uttered by Mrs . Bullen against the artist was oneand the only one which rested in my mind as an ugly
This phantom was , all to use the , rest the being words , of as I the knew reporter , without , " his a vesti dang ge ling of foundation attendance .
have morning nothing , , noon to , and ni to g him ht upon " The a rich idle wi words dow , haunted who , however mealthoug , Vould h
say . , I could not and . would not think thus meanly of one * whose sentiments had ever been of the loftiest kind . The idea of Cleveland
marrying for ease , for money , jarred against my notions of refinement and delicacy . Had I not heard him declaim against , and
denounce with scorn both men an ( J women who had , as he expressed it" sold themselves to the world , " and could the scorner of such
deeds , become the performer of them ? tasy " Never " , " answered :: ¦ . ¦ ¦ my : _•• , heart . " _; I could ¦ not believe ¦ : in ' ¦¦ such - ¦ apos _~ -
. , Mrs . Martyn delighted her husband by the unmeasured praise
she bestowed on the picture of Properzia—for he never rested until
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/30/
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