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with one who was accounted so worthy a ma ** lie Mt relieved from an anxiety which had formed the only drwfrbafek ujktn the life which had lately opened before him . We must pass as briefly over Walter ' s life as we have done over that of his sister , though it would make a volume ift the
history of the mind and heart of man . To the great city Walter came , with a somewhat more chastened feeling than would have been his had the visit taken place under less uncertain circumstances . His tutor , who now considered him more in the light of a son than a pupil , determined to continue to watch over him with the most affectionate vigilance . The adopted father and son
engaged a quiet lodging , and began to take the steps that would best ensure them against the attacks of the only enemy they had to dread—poverty . The tutor had little fear on his own account , and he soon succeeded in raising a small class of daily pupils , to whom his mornings would for the future be devoted , leaving the evening of the day at liberty to devote to Walter . Walter ' s talents
for literary composition , or rather his enthusiastic temperament , which appropriated the vast store of information of every kind to which he had had access , coupled with the most exquisite taste , led him into the expression of many an eloquent and imaginative effusion ; and carefully did his tutor watch for the time when
his powers should become concentrated upon the working out of some one mighty principle , that he might be identified as one of the leading minds of the age . The society of all the wise and good and g ifted , at least as many as the tutor ' s limited acquaintance could command , \ ras eagerly sought out . for him ; and it was here that Walter ' s real existence first dawned upon him . It was
here that its fullest capacity for happiness appeared for a time to receive all that even so sanguine a spirit as his craved after . It was here that he was destined to find that other soul , which , when found , discovered to him indeed , that until that time he had been only half created . It was here that all the full heart-springs , which had as yet slumbered like imprisoned waters , were loosened
from their captivity . The magic wand touched the rock , and they leapt forth in strength and brightness , gladdening and fertilizing all who came within their influence . It was here he first found that one sympathy which made the ' peopled solitude * to him a paradise of bliss . Walter loved ; and oh that there were more with love like unto his !) The treasure had never been lavished on unworthiness ; he had never been fooled into the belief of
excellence that did not exist ; imagination had never played him false in first gilding an object with brightness , and letting him believe , in the unsuspecting credulity of his heart , that the brightness was the creature ' s * own , till cold reality came too late to show him how deeply he had erred in attributing li g ht to another which wae but the reflection from his own soul . He had neve * heartlessly played with the feelin g * of another ; never recklessly debated his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/34/
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