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well followed up ; but / have not patience for such a process ; whenever / give moral arsenic or prussic acid ,, it is in decidedly deadly doses . '
c You have a most incorrigible tongue , Pauline . I wish every one knew how pure that issue keeps your heart ; yet I fear it will be fatal to you . The matter-of-fact people take you at your word , are half disposed to go to a magistrate , swear that you put them in fear of their lives , and have you bound over to keep the peace . '
It was now Pauline ' s turn to lau gh , which , though a very graceful creature , she did most riotously . ' I fancy / she resumed , ' something of this sort must be the case with Elliot , our magnificent iron-worker , when he rushes along the heights of poetry ,
shaking his axe at social iniquity , and bringing the hot brandingiron of his indignation to bear upon it . Yet would I answer with this little head of mine , that the lion , who so shakes the forest with his roar , is in the homestead a very lamb , around whose neck children may hang , wreathing the flowers they resemble . '
'The strong expression incident to such minds / said Maria , ' is moral evaporation ; it cools the hot brain it quits , and fires the cool brain it meets . Such minds are mighty agents appointed by Providence to carry on the work of human progression ; they stir into motion the sluggish multitude , which , wanting them , would remain a stagnant mass . But we have strangely wandered from my object in coming- to the window . ' ' Truly / cried Pauline , < I might almost say / like Juliet ,
" 1 have forgot why I did call you back . " ' * And truly I can say , like Romeo , " Let ine stand here till you remember it . "' 'Aye / exclaimed Pauline , finding in the poet ' s words an echo of her feelings , 4 I shall forget , to have thee still stand there , Remembering how I love thy company . "
But do you see that pale woman opposite , peering over the parlour blinds , looking like Death waiting for doomsday V 'I see a very sad-looking sad-coloured person / said Maria . 'The poor thing must be in bad health , perhaps in affliction . What is the matter with her ?'
' She is the wreck of a Sentimental ; her history will afford you matter on which to moralize . When a girl , could she have chosen her position in life , she would have preferred being a pining princess to anything else in the creation ; next to that a duke ' s daughter , dying of a consumption , fair as a lily , and , of course , &s fragile . Now , mark the perversity of fate : she was , on the contrary , sl little plump person , scarcely four feet high , with fe florid complexion , and her father—what do you think her
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446 Sketches of Domestic Life .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/10/
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