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afterwards treacherously lavished uponi ^ r compiipne nts and courtesies . ' Men , who should have put from them such thoughts as they would tihe Fetid vapour of pestilence , suffered her guineas to gild her character , and sought her hand : —looked upon her imbecility not as a drawback upon the value of a wife , but as an addition to it .
c This has been the policy of all who desire to govern according to their own corrupt inclinations , instead of the broad principles of justice . Wisdom , elected by love , acts like the Creator , who gives light and air unto all , that all may grow * glad and vig orous , happy and capable , to the utmost extent of the powers given : but craft , which has crept into power like a slug into a hive , through some reptile-gnawed , chink , loves darkness , that his unsightliness in person and practice may not be
seen . ' * Who is moralizing now V said Maria . * It is all y our fault / replied Pauline . ' I catch the tiresome habit of you . Now to return to Selina—* " Each hour a mercenary crowd With richest proffers strove , Among the rest young- Edwin bow'd , But never talked of love . "
Yes , Edwin , fortunately for him , he had been christened , and Mounteagle he was commonly called . What a combination for her fancy to feed upon ! The pastoral and the powerful—the lover ana the lord . She adored him by instinct—sighed deeply to think that her own name was not Emma—the union of two such pretty names was so important an item in the article of happiness . * There was something foreign in Edwin ' s accent , which was " so nice , " ' ' so interesting ; " then his dark eyes and long black lashes , and a sentimental sallowness in his complexion , all suggested to her delighted fancy that he was not a common Saxon compound . At length , modest as he was , following her like her shadow , worshipping her with looks , not language , she learned front him that he had had an Andalusian mother . —Ecstatic
discdVery !! I And his father—she trembled lest that father ' origin might break or abate the spell which the fair Spaniard breathed upon her son . But no , his father had enriched his veins with the blood of the ancient kings of Ireland !! r I have heard talk of the seventh heaven , I much q uestiou whether any ever inhaled its ether but Selina , when her Hibernia-Andalusian lover declared himself , and endowed her with his
heart , hi » honour , and an inheritance , which , though then hovering , like a vision , in the vista of probability , might , he told her , at n 6 dift € 4 nt day , drop a coronet upon her peerless brow ! 'To conclude a conversation which has run on too long . —In
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/16/
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