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• jpiite'fe ^ ri ^ sl ^ < * o i-the fofM ^ paiiff / wiSa ^ wfeSyi ^ fet ^ obeVfefl r hw man y mind s do * $ 8 e ¥ '& [ ¥ ej ^^ ebfoittg to « stehdl aty ^ soine p&tft SftwnS * t'itffe ifcfcte difficult to pa * fcM *> thaa t ^^ ss ormard l As . Isabella sunk upon a couch in her boudoir , » he rfelt the j
W ^ fing 6 f 4 hfe eVenftig breeze , and she leaned her utieasy head ttW ^^ fhe ii 4 ndoW to fcatch that gentl e carets of kindly nature . A'WWe ^ inartiffcia : ! soitg was warbled at the moment ; Isabella ftKflce ^ out and saw a young peasant girl passing home- from a lfeighbouHng fray-field with an apron full of the new-mown grass . f&tt > 3 IUt waa touched with admiration . Taste * one of the
dianaond-Jrt ^ A ^ of Spirit , is indestructible ; it maybe burned with us in wife kfriitffble of passion ; it may be shattered with tts by the mallet of misfortune ; but let the calm hour come back , and there is l&tib BYfght as ever ; let the day of prosperity return , gather up T tfte ' fr& ^ meMs , and taste is still essentially the * a m& . - Ttie wide scene , the sweet scent , the * happy songstress , the t fihti&st presented to all within by all without , TTas gaining some In&uerice on the mind of Isabella , when the prolonged summons 6 f the peeling knocker induced her to draw in h ^ r head > and sink the
ag ^ n ujton couch . To k lady with spirits as much belovr par as were Isabella ' s , the kind of visitor who first arrives is of infinite conisequence . Sotne come , like an essence-box , with a reviving influence , with a pleasing smile and playful sally ; others appear aft if they had a portable fog in the waistcoat-pocket , and there is no telling at what moment it may not burst forth . Some , possessed by a
ceaseless volubility , discharge a cataract of words with the rapidity that Mr . Perkins ' s machine does bullets—only fortunately they are not all hits' ; while others again speak so slow that twerp ' dee ' hft to ? wait for a Habeas Corpus to bring up every syllable ffrejri&y . Isabella ' s first visitor was unfortunately one of the latter destrJ ^ lJoh- ^ you might put in a parenthesis of any length during a
pause of his ; he had lately returned from the continent , whence neh ^ ld ^ btbught a foreign title , the better to enable him to catch k Vfcfr tiktive wife ^ but he had left none of his tediousness in ex-/ riattfite , io'tbat hi ? had still plenty at the service of society . I ^ &tteflfc , When $ h conversattioti With this worthy Count , was like a t aWtf chi ^ ss pl&yei * engaged with a slow one ; the former antiv <* maie 3 every rnovV / and titos becomes a sort of sentinel at the ' fetotf , father than ito antagonist at the game .
" * -B iit Is ^ bejlk Wito a di s «^ i nAi-ian ' , and besides she had not passed y ^ V ^ n i ^^ otts ht Lbridiih ^ wMi 6 uthaVmg learned how to nianage ) fb 6 jr&l ttk& libtt # J B ^ i ^ bye ] a strfeiige ^ oft of metamorph ^ eis ( J i « 5 feuWi ^ ^ V ty ^ toi- tlwr : dfepiayi of l > rf * iJ ttn ^ ta » il 8 * fW'tlifc AWi 6 rbn ^^ criidrt dften bcfWtnestHe ior ^ of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/56/
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