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gatfat » -ne tbfiir 4 *** rt > it will not be many years ere we ftbali have a fil ^ mtt < ti : Gpmtnoi )» truly representing the people , in a state widely jowrored from the present one .
I lay down my pen well pleased to have lent such aid as I can t © increase the circulation of a work which in my judgment is calculated to produce great good where instruction is so much waaled , — -in the dwellings of the poor , who bid fair to be well < helped . ' July 23 d , 1835 . Junius Redivivus .
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SKETCHES OF DOMESTIC LIFE .
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No . 6 . —The Coqvettb . Thk prettiest villa in the vicinity of London belonged to Isabella Hervey . She was brilliantly beautiful , the possessor of aa ample independent fortune , and the idol of a bachelor brother , who , many years her senior , had long supplied to her orphaned youth parental care and protection .
The crimson glow of a summer sunset burnished all the windows of her bpudoir , gleamed through their light and graceful draperies , and made the sumptuous carpet , couches , and Ottomans dimly visible ; from this apartment , over which tlie spirit of enchantment seemed to preside , the eye passed through a beautiful vista formed by two consecutive drawing-rooms , in which the lights were being kindled for a throng of expected guests . Just at this interval—this pause which was not peace , but seemed like it—Isabella glided slowly into the scene of which she wa * the sovereign . As she passed , the splendid mirrors reflected her fprra—a form fair as woman ever wore ; a thousand odours greeted her with a voice of silent fragrance ; and her harp , half nid in the recess of a window , through the gauzy veil of which gleamed clustering roses , whispered of melody as she went by .
^ But Isabella had now been many years a fashionable coquette : tnotftgh still young , still , to the common and cursory eye , beau * tinJ , still rich , still flattered and followed , she was not happy , AU the freshness or rather all the sweetness of feeling was gone ; little susceptibility was left her but to the impressions of pain . Tnis is one of the penalties that humanity pays for the abuse .
of the human powers ; sensibility to pleasure it muH surrender , ^ eligibility to pain it cannot . Isabella entered her boudoir with a letter in her hand—that letter had disappointed her . Her satiated mental appetite now r ^ quirrd the kyptrbola of praiaaj she could not do without it , it If 99 * t 9 ^ nf dioieot ^ s « eut uu to the savour of ail that was said to lw ; yet it did not give her pleasure , though its fibftpnctf . gave * h *» c pftin . S- ' - l'JLV 'i * . ¦ . : .. ¦ ' ,:. : ¦/ '• > .: ' I . . ¦ ¦ ; . . ¦ <
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/54/
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