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    * 3 Ehey met by stealth , f rafter a sce ^ e of violence fro m Captain Hirers : — -j "In the same wood , and at the same midnight hour , as when she

    lame to bring assistance to the outcast boy three years before , I saw her again , and for the last time before I quitted England , Alithea had one fault , if such name may be given to a delicacy of structure that rendered every clash oi * human passion terrifying . In physical danger she could shew herself a heroine ; but awaken her terror of moral evil , and she

    was hurried away beyond all self-command by spasms of fear . Thus , as she ija ^ enmw clandestinely , under the cover of night > ierinker ' s denunciations still sounding in her ears—the friend of her youth banishedgoing away for ever ; and that departure disturbed by strife , her reason almost forsook her—she was bewildered—clinging to me with tearsyet fearful at every minute of discovery . It was a parting of anguish .

    She did not feel the passion that ruled my bosom . Hers was a gentler , sisterly feeling ; yet not the less entwined with the principles of her being , and , necessary to her existence . She lavished caresses and words of endearment on me : she could not tear herself away ; yet she rejected firmly every idea of disobedience to her father ; and the burning expressions of my love found no echo in her bosom .

    " Thus we parted ; and a few days afterwards I was on the wide sea , sailing for my distant bourn . "—Vol . ii , p . 212 . The sequel may be guessed . He passed ten years of energetic and honourable action in India ; the idea of Alithea constantly present with him ; a part of his being ; maintaining 7

    perpetually its hold , " strung up to the height of passion / At the end of this period he returned to England , a rich man , and found her married ; accidentally met with a Mr Neville , who excited his disgust by his gross , base , and libertine manners , and found he was her husband . From this moment it became

    the one object of his life to rescue her , the idol of his heart , enshrined there with every pure and sacred association , from the pollution in which he regarded her as involved . Had he met Neville alone that night , he declares he would have murdered him . As it was , he went to Alithea during his absence ;

    found her the lady of a large domain ; her-feelings as a mother possessing all that tenderness she could not bestow on her husbatid ; and her sympathies employed on all around hex . * The rest is powerfully described . Her dignified expostulations in answer to his passionate appeals ; her endeavour to make him love her son , when he talked of his love for herself .

    Conquered by her firmness , his settled determination , if he could persuade her to leave Neville , to place her and her child in safety in some secluded and beautiful spot , seeking no love for himself ; > Her refusal to comply , and refusal to see him ; followed by her granting a last interview , at which he accomplished his resolution , with the assistance of a confederate , to carry her-off' by forde , to some distance from her home : in

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/44/