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    The beautiful girl was Alithea Rivers , and the impression which that day made on the feelings and imagination of Fittkher was never obliterated . The cottage became the home % q which his heart turned throughout his boyhood and youth . T ? i }> & r § fining and softening influence of Mrs Rivers , and the affection apd companionship of Alithea , brought out all the better parts of his nature . The character of Alithea is more developed by her actions than by description , but all that is Said of her is in perfect accordance with the kind of nature which , doming in contact with one of deep passion , was lively tp Ittodjiee intensity of feeling , and , according to after-circumsj&tijfces , intensity either of joy or woe . The following passage is | lu illustration : —

    ^ She had two qualities which I have never seen equalled separately , but which , united in her , formed a spell no one could resist—the most acute sensitiveness to joy or grief in her own person , and the most lively sympathy with these feelings in others . I have seen her so enter heart and soul into the sentiments of one in whom she was interested , that her whole being took the colour of their mood ; and her very features and complexion appeared to alter in unison with theirs . Her tempter was never ruffled ; she could not be angry ; she grieved too AetiplffoT those who did wrong : but she could be glad ; and never have I wen Joy , the very sunshine of the soul , so cloudlessly expressed as in feer-counftenaBce . Her spirits were high even to wildness ; but at their bfeigk& » tempered by such thought for others , such inbred feminine softnf& 4 , athfltt her most exuberant gaiety resembled heart-cheering music , and made e&ph bosom respond /'—Vol , ii . p . 182 . natu re of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/42/