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Her guardian prompted her replies to the glittering throng , wfcick she uttered in little words , so faint , they had scarcely disturbed a gossamer had it floated within the circumtlexion of her breath . The woe-begone smile that fluttered on her lips faded—faded into marble composure , as the looks and tones of encouragement to gladness met her on every side . Alas ! they deemed it timid , sinking , maiden
bashfulness in her ; they saw not that neither thought nor will was in the few faint words that floated from her lips and died within the circld of her breath . To task the features , tongue , and frame to mingle in pleasures , while . every pulsation of the heart is a throb of misery , is only mockery of their anguish ; and every word which would tell the victim to forget , does but cause the grief to cling with closer
enfolding . Oh , bid the sightless eyes revel and range over lorms and scenes of beauty!—bid the one in chained and fettered limbs laugh at restraints and freely dance !—bid the exhausted frame be agile as the forest fawns ; and plunge th £ wretch that faints with feverish burning in streams of fire ; when the concentrated heat rushes to the brain and leaves the heart an icicle—so in the midst of the splendid array which encompassed Melaza and mocked her misery , her thoughts foamed o ' er a waste
* Of blighted hopes and flowers decayed j—Leafless and all their perfume gone ,- — A lirriitlesb , unchanging shade , Lit by no cheering ray ;— -not one I * And beware , ye wise , ye gravely consoling , how ye intrude ; leave
$ uch suffering to loneliness ; for solitude is its sole relief ; or sigh and wsep with it , if ye would , cap , sympathize . It will partially , and more and more forget itself , in seeking to alleviate the pain which your sympathy evinces . Come , cavillers , or else show me a pounder , a truer system of philosophy . a truer system ot philosophy .
The whole road , from the mansion down to Cape Promontorio and tq liisignan , was animated with groups of holiday expectants , and the passing of messengers , who carried , every half hour , reports from those who \ yere stationed to watch from the outstretching * cape , up the Gulf of Fiume , for the approach of the galley , which at first appeared a dot on the water ; and now moved along on the smooth , sun-planished surface of the sea , by the even stroke of sixty oars ,
clipping , rising , flashing , and falling in unison : the white sails slumbering in minute fits ,, as the small breeze kissecl them , —and the rich carving and gilding of the prow , sparkling in the reflection of the crispy foam , whose white curls took , in reciprocation , the yellow Jjue . The first intelligence of the galley being in sight called forth a cheer , which was tossed from group to group on the road , and deposited in the mansion , where all , with one impulse , received and
ecfioed it : all—except one—one on whose foreliead , face , neck , and l | mbs , as the sound struck her , the dew of hopelessness and dismay hqng in drops , arid glistened out from the deathy wanness of her pheeks . Where was J ^ ucjp ? He had avoided the scene ; his presence would have accumulated \\ er sufferings , as she watched the misery which he could not conceal . Yet , as the messengers arrived with tidings q £ th , e nearer , yet nearer approach of the galley , it was observed that Melaza lost much of her agitation . She seemed to concentrate all
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6 S 4 Autobiography of PeL Verjuite .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/50/
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