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392 THE PORTRAIT.
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knowled fewer worldly outward ge wisdom . If demonstrations , I became at the sad less pric impetuous e feelings we have , less seemed all confiding to onl pay , y and to for gather made suck
heart streng — th I and thanked to have Heaven a deeper for g , low the my for gracious those I boon truly — esteemed had not . been My _, folland
chilled and made cold by the experiences of human y Jhuman weakness : it had merely grown wiser . is sound
" Le cceur" says Pascal , " a ses raisons ; " and there philosophy in the assertion , for not alone by logic of the brain are :
we Ten governed times . had our three hundred and sixty-five days been ; the midniht sk
numberedsince I stood with Cleveland looking at gy among the , orange-trees in the narrated verandah of the left Ambassador far behindsoftened ' s Hotel
h in ask j Paris the the , mellow and the question tints events of which just those past foolish -away were heart years had . a I thousand had , ceased times to- _,
weary my when sighed he to did the not winds love : —— her Wh ?— y Intercourse did Cleveland with marr the world y Mrs had . Bethune shown ,
that such events were of too common occurrenceand I could me smile when I remembered the remark of the merry Caroline , as
sheshook chance her golden with a curls widow , and endowed in mimic with sorrow riches said and that if " no the one widow had ;
had happ any tim ened to besides find out to be that beautiful the laug , then hing the speaker case was spoke hopeless truly , . " and I .
e riches that few and men adulation are proof . against Cleveland the was three , - after fold temp all , onl tations y mortal , of beauty , and I ,
freel I y had , exonerated been enabled him . by steadperseverance and energy to
accomy p even lish , more aided than by the I had kindness dared of to my hope never for . -failing Mrs . friend Richards Mr . had Martyn been _; that
own spared efforts to see I had me successful earned a position in my labors , not brilliant , and to rejoice by any means by , but my friend the
secureand that was all I coveted . Somehow my dragon had quaint taken , , primitive a strong place fancy , more to especiall dear old y when -fashioned she Catholic learned Carrington that , on that an
ancient site where once had stood an abbey , a chapel was in When self process there as first of a erection stranger met after . ; She some the had marriage of her returned friend of her s from scattered mi Ireland stress , and she , finding many studiousl dead her y - ..
we , as avoided and to waited me the was until subject rather she $ was neither a harsh willing did topic to I . allude converse At that to it on perio , for what d I , my knew to resi her her gnation , as way well , . _,
remain to questionings fate silent was , . not about One perfect moral day , , however neither justice , , had Sarah therefore I ceased startled I altogether was me by not say sorry my ing vain she
to-Mrs was going Cleveland to see her She mistress said that , — she never had by received any chance a letter did she from call , her her ,
statin . g that she . was not in good health , and wished the dragon , if
she felt disposed , to resume her services .
392 The Portrait.
392 THE PORTRAIT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/32/
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