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that would happen during that time might place her beyotti all risk . t Besides ,, you shall speak your husband ' s words , as you wished , my precious one , and I must have time for practice , that they may approach to something like worthiness to be uttered by those lips . ' * Then you must do another thing that I wished , my Walter ; but that you cannot do , no , noT any one living—write your own praises as they deserve to be written . ' Walter soon
found that he did not need much practice . He continued to write , and his pieces continued to be successful ; while her sketches irere more greedily sought after , from the double interest which they had acquired . All cause of fear for her general health had vanished ; and now he had but one , which was of an absorbing nature , and yet so mixed with joy at the prospect of another being like herself coming to dwell in such an atmosphere of love , that at tiroes all fear was forgotten . She became a mother ; she was safe—his own —quite safe , and there was the little helpless one , with a world
wrapped up within it—a sacred trust—a part of her he worshipped , yes , worshipped too idolatrously ; and he looked upon blossom and bud , and he wept over them ; and then his heart laughed within him , and he wept again , and asked heaven what he bad done that he should be so blessed—what he should do to continue to deserve such bliss . Mother and daughter continued rapidly to improve , and Walter began the eventful piece . ' You will not forget your promise of letting me have something to say about you , dear Walter ; how I shall long for it to come ! ' ' Nay , love , I gave you no promise ; I should not know what to write . * Well , then , find out some place where I may say what I like ; just a blank space that I may fill up ; ' and the place was found , and the piece was written , and the dav arrived . There were no fears of success ;
there were no tremblings at thoughts of a failure ; they had sufficient power to keep them ahead of the world ; they had high principle to carry them through all they did ; and they had thenown most secure treasure and comfort of love , of which nothing on earth could deprive them . Half the anxieties , half the tremors and fears and quakings that wait on any pursuit that brings man or woman a little more conspicuousl y forward than the multitude , arise from vanity and the excessive love to please—not to give pleasure ; not from the intense interest in their object , but intense love of themselves ; modesty , diffidence , bashfulness , are often ,
almost always * different words applied to that one feeling ot arffconsciousness which excites the fear to come forward lest all that the world exacts should not be achieved . Walter had not to endure the pain of seeing any of these weaknesses in her he lored . The only su tiering he had ever known through her was the result of her precarious health , and even then the tender pleasure of cheering her when tliere were pallid looks , of supporting her when there were trembling limb& , far outweighed all anxiety . At the requisite hour they went to the theatre . The two old
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The Actress . 473
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/37/
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