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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 133
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. * 6 Lucile, By Owen Meredith. Chapman ...
fortunatel The reader y for is the t sometimes actors it is to spread over for air tlie and space sunli of some ht and years the gasp g
comm would on surel meed wear ap of common this mortal days frame . Such away life , , such was what love , we such thoug grief ht
in reading Lucile y . We learn from a retrospective conversation that the young Corntesse de Nevers , half French , and half East Indian
Vargrave by birth , , had the younger been betrothed son of an when English quite noble a girl house to . Lord But Alfre she is d
too fond and he too fickle , and they part thus : — She bored me . I show'd it . She Oil saw , the it . tale What is soon next spoken ? . Of she d
I She was repro vex ach 'd that 'd . she I retorted was so . . She course sulk'd . So was did vex I . ' . I If I ask contr 'd her ite to submissive sing , she look She 'd read soften y ' to d . cry I . harden _ed .
At was noon I was , banish'd . . At eve I was pardon'd . She said I had no heart . I said she had no reason . I swore she talk'd nonsenseShe sobb'd I talk'd treason .
. In short , my dear fellow , 'twas time , as you see , Things should come to a the crisis matter , and finish . 'Twas ht she
By whom to that crisis was broug . With She released too sullen me . an I aspect linger . 'd . This I linger gave ' me d , h she , of thoug course ht , ,
We And The parted occasion declare . myself The to fly rest i nncomprehended n a of the ge , story mount you . my know And orse so . ,
Cousin John . j SFoindeed . , LORD _ALFRED .
Well , we parted . Of course we could not You Continue conceive to meet it was , as awkward before , in ? one Even spot Don . Ferdinando
1 Can Considering think do , that you the I remember acted time exceeding when , no more this ly rupture than well , he befel can do .
, For Paris was charming just then . I deranged All my plans for the winter . I ask'd to be changed—Wrote for [ Naples , then vacant—obtain'd reach it—an d d it so when lo !
Jo ]\ l in first 'd my news new from post P at ari once s informs ; but me scarce Lucile ' — I Is fl y ill , back and in I danger find her . Conceive recover'd what but I yet feel .
Looking y pale . . I am seized with , a contrite regret . I ask to renew the engagement . Cousin John .
And she ? Lord Alfred . Reflects , but declines . We All part th , swearing at sort of to be !
We Friends each ever keep , friends our letters only . . ... a portrait . thing .. a ring . . . With Or the a other pledge sh to all return call for them them whenever back . the one
Ten years later , Lord Alfred is on the verge of marriag ch e with
Matild desires a to Darcy restore , when to him Lucile these hearing letters of , and his engagement to receive irorn by him ance a ,
Notices Of Books. 133
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 133
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/61/
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