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    his hazel « ye , there was that which indicated a contemplative , and semetimes a selt-concentrated , mind . He spake little , but Sis face communed with you . " Never did created being more intensely enjoy his existence . With Win , to be was to be happy ; and Michael Moore ' s was a wide heritage , for the great universe was his portion . He was no dreamer ; he did not live , poet-like , in an imaginary world , nor fill the cup of his happiness

    from any invisible source , but from a fountain , a never-failing fountain , of actual and palpable delights . Were not the trees green ?—were not the flowers beautiful and fragrant ?—was not the air fresh , and the moss soft , and the turf elastic , and the sun warm?—Did not the birds sing to him , and the painted butterflies wanton around him , and the bees ply their tasks in his presence ?—Might he not lie on the * warm grass , or bathe in the cool element , or run through the thin air , and no one

    dispute his right to such enjoyments ? Happy boy !—nature appealed not to his pure young soul in vain ; nor spurned he the rich gifts which were laid at his feet , because his brethren were suffered to partake of them . " Ella Moore is a less marked character , but , forming one of a group , she gives to the whole an aspect of grace and beauty . The love of Gerard Doveton for her is finely traced through its

    rise and progress , and the miserable error he commits with regard to her is described with perfect truth to a temperament such as his . Through difficulty and doubt his love never fails , and so long as she is a poor cottage maiden his prosperous fortunes only bind him the closer to Tier ; but when their relative positions are changed he fancies it may be interest instead

    of love which he feels , and so his impulse drives him away from her . An impassioned nature would never have made such a mistake . The most unselfish people often do the most selfish things , and inflict excessive pain on others , while they think they only make a sacrifice of their own happiness . This was exactly what Gerard did , and it is perfectly in accordance with his character that he should do so : but we think the author

    has committed a heresy against love in the fate of Anstruther , who was a man of passion . We cannot believe that love , such as it existed in him , and such as he had inspired , could have terminated so wretchedly . His own description of what it had been is very fine : —

    " We revealed our inmost souls to one another . All our long pentup feelings now gushed forth in a stream of words . Each was to each like the prophet ' s rod which smote the rock and drew forth water . We could comprehend , fully comprehend , the seoretest workings of one

    another ' s eonls Emotions which we had long conceived to be unintelligible to any but ourselves , were now described by the one And immediately understood by the other . There was a band of sympathy between us . We felt , as we conversed , that we need conceal nothing—not even our mbst morbid sensibilities . We feared not to behold on the other ' s face * mah of wcajwn or a look Qf © old iadiffereoce . Heart communed

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    284 Dove ^ on ; or the Man of many Impulses .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/39/