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her acquiring a ^ retijjth so necessary her aracter , yet f ^ pleasilreVof s ' eeittDg ner present ease , made Walter blind fo future consequences ; and he still continued in the same course , often at the expense of his own comfort , and—what he was so anxious to promote—Emma ' s future happiness . Time was meanwhile working a thorough change in their circumstances . The bachelor was beginning to be tired of waiting for the result of all
his plans for the future greatness of the family . Walter was now in his eighteenth year ; quite time that he should be looking out . ' He had been looking for a long while , but it had been in to the depths of things , sounding the shallows , discovering the qui c ksands , diving deep into the ocean of truth , bringing up treasures which he placed within the storehouse of his mind , there to remain till time and circumstance should call them from their
Yecesses . Yet he was unconscious of all this . His tutor was the directing spirit ; he it was who had harmonized the noble elements , which he had found a chaos , into a world of beauty and order . And how Bachelor Humphrey came to another period , when he determined to bestir himself ; and accordingly , as five years before he had consulted his oracle , the newspaper , and it had
seemed to answer so well that it had given him what he wanted with little trouble , again he applied for help to the source which had found him in tutor , to find him in profession . At the time of which we are writing , the public prints teemed with an account of promotions in the India service . India had always been a sort of El Dorado to him ; and now that his imagination
was in a newly excited state , it seemed so more than ever . All consideration of his nephew ' fitness , ( of the necessity of a previous military education , ) all consciousness of the lapse of time that must take place before his hope could receive fruition , ( of course , affection never having had any part in his feeling towards
him , the personal separation was as nothing ;) all was lost in the distant vision of coming glory , at first dimly seen , but now advancing with phantasmagoric fleetness and increase of dimension ; and , to pursue the metaphor , it finally ended in his being Walter Brandon , Lord Brandon , Governor General / close to his nose , aod
there was no longer doubt upon the subject . Accordingly , one morning , Master Walter was summoned to attend his uncle in the library . He was not a man of many words , —a good thing for those who were compelled to listen to him . ' Sit down , nephew , sit down;—hem ! I have been thinking , nephew , that it is high time you should be seeking your future
profession . 1 My future profession , sir V * Yes ; is there anything so very extraordinary in that , that , you start as if you had been shot ?* ' No , unclei ; only profession , is a tvord I hafe > anxt hope n ^ Ve ^ to have * anything' to'dowrth / ^ ^ ^
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to ch The Actress . 465
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/29/
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