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WluUer # he gave a whole heart , that , like his , was untenanted by OP / e thought , one feeling , that would have prevented / an angel nuking of it a tabernacle . And there was an angel dwelling within it—^ an angel of love and beneficence ; and often would the celestial
spirit visit her eyes and irradiate her features , till those who looked upon them almost deemed that one of the inhabitants of heaven had descended to bless the sons and daughters of earth . They were married . They knew well the only enemy they had to dread , but they felt that together they would be far stronger in
resisting its attack : they had few artificial wants , and there was not one comparable to the want of each other ' s society . A house was taken that would provide for the domestication of the entire group under one roof , and they all continued to persevere in their $€ cu 9 tomed avocations . , The theatre was a new world to Walter ; and what a world !—
With her for his guiding spirit , how did he dream —no , realize , all thathe had dreamt—of a world of beauty and happiness far different from the one in which he had lived , and yet all fashioned out of tfcte same material . And here it was ; here was redemption from tbe formal petty detail of every-day life ; here were thoughts that
breathe and words that burn ; here was scope for powers that had as yet remained undevoted ; and , oh bliss ! here was that other life within his life—that spirit who had opened this world upon him—all his own , to go through life with him hand in hand , bouI in soul , to be his joy , his inspiration , his all . Daily , hourly , did he feel all his noble powers expand beneath her influence : he
seemed to tread on air , rather to fly through it ; daily he asked , 'What shall I render for all this V and daily plans were made and unmade in the exuberance of his gratitude . He saw how sadly deficient was stage authorship for all the higher purposes which the art was calculated to achieve ; and though far from assuming hi » own ability to attain first-rate excellence as a dramatic writer ,
he felt he could at least make an appeal to a universal human feeling , without its intermixture of low ait or coarse vulgarity . Then to have what he wrote spoken by her : to write for her ; to hear her , see her infusing her own exquisite nature into a thousand frtarts ; to support her , cherish her , through it all ; to have such a home , to which they might come after their good work wan achieved ! oh what dreams tney would have ! ' Walter , ' she would
• ay , ' write much in praise of love , and when I speak it look at me , look at me well ; for I shall be thinking of you all the time ; and I must write , too . I must write a character for you ; no , I inu « t be some one to praise a character like you ; oh , to tell them gJU what you are ! what I feel you are !—my blessing !* and nhe threw herself upon his bosom , and wept out the fulness of hor fajwt ' ft ioyfe gaiter ' s fears for her health were fast vanishing ; he seemed daily to gain strength ; but he still determined on her HW 4 * yii > giUer rtnmgth far a year , until ditferent circumstance *
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/36/
