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134 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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. * 6 Lucile, By Owen Meredith. Chapman ...
similar _paclcet . He rides over to the village where _slie is staying _, and finds that what he once despised has become the most
charming and delightful of unattainable treasures . The passionate undisciplined _, girl , who loved him too much to retain him , has become
the self-possessed and fascinating woman , who loves him still . So much he discovers ere they part ; and he offers to throw over
Miss Darcy , and to fling himself once more at the feet of Lucile ; butto his amazement , she rejects him , and bids him fulfil his
, engagement . Yet , we are led to _sujDpose _, he would have persevered and won herbut for the machinations of the bad . _dulie , a
disap-, pointed lover of Lucile ' s . Lord Alfred is separated from Lucile by a look . It is curious that this is the second novel of this year in
which the plot hinges on a look . In Hawthorn ' s " Transformation" the murder on the Tarpeian Rock is represented as born in
, Miriam's eyes ere it is realized by her lover Donatello ' s hands . Let human feeling only be sufficiently acute to perceive , and it is
no fiction that one glance may turn the current of a life . "W e give a long extract describing Lucile at the moment when
Lord Alfred renews the intercourse between them . She is supposed to be nearer thirty than twenty years of age . The bitter trial of
her youth has left her what the poet thus paints in vigorous and beautiful verse : —
W Lucile as a w de _iSTevers an of ( if i her us : riddle not en I i read usindeed ) gg
In the abstract , nor yet in the abstract , mere , woman : Y But et f the or ever woman at wa or r w genitjs ith her , essen own t h iall um y human nature , ;
With And The genius strength the genius , now to her fused impeded sex in ; the its now fli woman the ht to woman , gave the star , stature at . war
As it is with all , genius , the essence g and soul Or Of her to stifle nature or was palter truth in . aug When ht with she that soug truth ht to control ,
'Twas when , life seem'd to grant it no issues . , Her youth
That One occasion tumult of had soul known which , when she , now if fused in ht another to smother , Finding scope within , man ' s larger life soug , and controll'd ,
Into By man channels ' s clearer enriching judgment the perchance troubled existence might have roll ' d Which it now only vex'd with an inward resistance .
Which But that had chance been fell to her too nature soon , when so fatal the a crude dower sense , of power In Was the too life fierce of another and unfashion and served 'd to but fuse to itself fret yet
And to startle the man , it yet haunted and thrall'd ; But And it that left moment her heart , once sore lost and , had to been shelter never her recall heart 'd .
From approach , she then , sought , in that delicate art Of Of feminin concealment e wit , which those thousand el while adroit they str lease ategies
A at once , and rep a shieldto conceal p , And weapon defend , all that , woman can , earnestly feel .
134 Notices Of Books.
134 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/62/
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