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happier . I wish you would ask me to < k > something very difficult for you ; I am so strong ; I feel I could do anything ; could fly . dlmoet . ' And she threw her arms back , and seemed , like Ariel ,
to drink the air before her ; ' and you felt that with a very little less of the mortal coil in which she was wrapped , she might have taken her flight home on ' a bat ' s back , after sunset merrily . ' g tell me , uncle , why is it dangerous ?' * I wonder a girl of your sense ( here was condescension !) should ask the question ; dangerous , because it might lead you into
temptation . 4 Into temptation ! I do not know what you mean , uncle . ' ' Why , tempt you to become an actress ,, to be sure . ' 'Oh ! is that all ? well , I never could see why it should be very well here , as you said just now , and very bad at a theatre ; to me it seems much better , because there are so many more people to whom you are able to give pleasure . '
4 Flora , I am shocked to hear you express such a disgraceful opinion , ' said her uncle . * My father would not think it so , ' said Flora , colouring to the temples . * Possibly not / said her uncle , with perfect coolness . ' And I—but we shall never agree , and it is absurd to waste
feeling in this way , ' she said , half speaking to herself ; and she turned to her aunt to receive the kiss that had been awaiting her so long , and the test of affection from eyes that were always either filling with fresh tears , or parting with old ones ; while Sir James was remaining inwardly shocked at the impertinence which could
make a girl of fourteen commit the indecorum . of n «> t agreeing itith a man more than three times her own age * and of much longer standin g in society . ' Dear aunt , how beautifully you arc sketching the little drooper ! Pretty one ! do you think me very cruel for tearing you away from your home T And , as she kissed the dying convolvulus , a passing shade came over her , wliiie Lady Brandon looked at the fragile girl and the fading flower , and
sighed she scarcel y knew why , though its interpretation might be foilnd in the fleetly-vanishing beauty and freshness of fair youth . There ! look at your futurity before you die , ' continued the girl , holding the flower to the page on which it had been preserved in many a graceful curve ; ' you will live longer than the companions whom you have left on the hedge-bough ; but that is poor comfort
and here is so much life gone ! ' And the rapidly-dying wreath was again pondered over , and a resolve half-formed never again to pluck another . At last she threw it gently from her , as if that were the only way to end her doubting . * And now , dear aunt , I must go , for papa was to come and meet me at the gate at the end ofth * wood , —this end ; for I love to walk through a wood with him , and he will bo there before I am . Do let me know as soon as Elnma comes home , for we are going to give the school children
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/26/
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