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    domains had for centuries belonged , which pronounced the failure of the line , and extinction of the name , on the drying * up of that Font . The last Count Oschiaro had an only son , who , with unusual comeliness of person , combined the rarer graces of quick impressibility , which were nurtured by a cultivated intellect ; but there was in him that corporeal delicacy , on which an ardency of feeling , when it was aroused by the

    insensibility or injustice of others , shook with a violence that threatened early ruin . By the boisterous , those whose knowledge of him was limited to that surface which was exhibited in the ordinary tenour of his way , he was regarded rather as a being whom they might pity ; the better of them compassionated his weakness , and sought him only with the demeanour of protectors ; others despised him as imbecile , and anticipatively viewed him as their prey .

    Miscalculating his evidences of gentleness , the disposition to retire within himself , the yielding of his manner , these were sometimes encouraged to advance beyond the limits of endurance . Then rose the hitherto subdued elements of his nature , which transformed the feeble and fragile youth into a giant ; the bursting of the storm caused the insolent intruders to start back amazed at the strength which they had derided , affecting , while they retreated from it , still to make it a jest . They

    found that though he shivered and shrank from the breeze , he would oppose and battle with the tempest , though the encounter must destroy him . Few around him were formed for companionship with such a being ; and his life was passed in pursuits and pleasures which were strangely opposite to those to which their tastes allured them . But who could be more beloved than he was by all who sought fellowship with him , or who looked to him for protection ! * The best of his name was the last of his race , ' is to this hour the melancholy dirge of

    the grandchildren of those who remembered Count Lucio . He was happy in the happiness which he saw in , and imparted to others . The wounds of dissention were healed by his hand ; and his arbitration in disputes sent the reconciled parties away pleased with . each other , and almost glad that they had quarrelled , because that had enabled them to feel Signior Lucio ' s benign interference . The natural goodness of his heart , the free giving bounty of his spirit , had enjoyed the singular—oh , most rare , rare blessing of living on , and growing up through youth to manhood , unperverted .

    An orphan girl , daughter of a former comrade and oft-tried friend of Count Oschiaro , had been bequeathed by her dying father to his charge . She was then in early girlhood , blooming in all the promise of future loveliness , and she never learnt how beautiful she was ; she was like a gentle flower that now stoops , now lifts its head upon its slender stem , unconscious of its form or the exquisite charm of its tint 8 , retiring and placid as though it would wish to live unseen but

    by fairy eyes . With her stature grew , and that unconsciously , what at first was the teryjerness of brotherly and sisterly affection , between Melaza and Lucio . Unconscious on her part , at least , for though she knew herself to be , by her dead father ' s interference , betrothed to Count Jeldaz , the quiet cheerfulness of her thoughts was never broken by any uneasiness as the time approached when he should be expected to arrive to claim and carry her away as his bride . She had not

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    632 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/48/