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pleading , however , awakens an aetive benevolence if it tie fto £ love . She is informed of the means of escape from certain death in an accursed climate , and he offers her his hand . She at onee rejects the offer ; and , having also resisted the persuasions of thg governess , leaves the stage in the hope of rousing the populace to her aid . '
Act fifth . That appeal has been in vain . The paper which the governess holds operates like a charm on every one . The governor * comes , is smitten by her beauty , but withdraws the instant he beholds the fatal paper . The abbess also , in like manner , refuses to receive her in the convent . She herself is allowed td -ook on the instrument . It has the king ' s hand and seal . A monk conies on the stage . She is resolved to be guided by him *
' A riddle , not complaint , you ' 11 hear from me ; Not counsel , but an oracle I seek . Two hated objects are presented to me—One , there ; the other , there ;—which shall I take ?' * Why tempt me ? Shall I as a lottery serve you ? ' ' Yes , as a holy lottery' - ' If I then
Do rightly comprehend you—In your need You turn your eye aloft to higher regions , 3 And close your heart upon your own desires , Seeking decision from the power above . True is it , that the all-inspiring- spirit Incomprehensibly determines us , As if by chance , towards our highest good . To feel this , is supreme felicity ; Not to require it is our modest duty , — To expect it , our best refuge from despair /
Yet he refuses his concurrence , and will not answer . But when she lays before him the alternative , ^—ra marriage with one she does pot love , or banishment to the infected colonies , he eagerly ad » vises the latter . Marriage , from such motive , would be a prosti * tution of the sacrament , and he expatiates on the heroic services she may render in such a sphere ; while her own country is about to be unfit fpr the abode of women . —a feajrful conflict is on the
point of bursting out . Ihe elements of destruction are in fearful activity . In a word the revolution is announced as imminent . These prophetic warnings , however , act on the heroic spirit of Eugenia as a mighty stimulant to do that from which they were to deter . , Her resolution to stay is formed at once . She is
conscious that royal blood flows in her veins , and feels that on her is cast the duty of herself doing what a degraded race cannot ptberwise perform . She accepts the hand of the judge , but iair pQses on him a solemn engagement that he will allow her tQ repair from the very altar alone to a secluded and deserted mansion in the country , wipers even , hs mU : nqt intrude on k $ F
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/26/
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