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I will believe him ju * 4 ;; at least , let me respect him . Oh 1 , what a word for a heart like this ! ' she continued , as she felt tbat heart rushing towards him in a tide of strong love , that no barrier of word or thought could restrain . < And yet it is much ; any thing rather than the degradation of my idol—anything rather than to be the dupe of a childlike trusting love ! No ! no ! I may still hold my faith ; thank God for that . Nothing can tear it from , me !—nothing but his own spoken word .. Hear me , Heaven , and chronicle the words I utter ; I rest my life on Percy Fenton ' s truth ! ' A . peace came with these thoughts that did indeed pass her own understanding , and in a short time her wearied frame was wrapt in slumber . Not so her mind ; dreams and
haifwakmg visions came in thick succession : some vague and indistinct , others clothed in a frightful reality ; all in some way taking the events that had so-rapidly closed around her for their argument . One—and it was the last—came with peculiar distinctness . She thought she was wandering through a wood with Percy ; a beautiful wood ! Each tree was in its prime ; a blue sky over all ; and the sunshine darting in and out amongst the green recesses .
Percy was at some distance from her ; but , as they went on their way , they approached nearer and nearer to each other . At last they came to a long vista ; they entered it together . The sun became brighter , the trees greener ; pleasant airs played amongst the branches ; the birds sang , and the bees and glad butterflies sported amongst the wild flowers : innumerable sweet chirpings were heard from underneath the mosses , and all seemed instinct
with life and happiness . At the end of the vista there seemed a garden . Delicious perfumes came upon the air , mingled with the sound of lulling waterfalls ; dim glimpses of bright spirits flitted here and there ; beautiful forms seemed to beckon them on , and a syren voice was singing in the air ' Come '—and a sweet echo answered f come , '— ' to your home !'— ' Home ! ' again the echo answered , till
the . sound was heard in endless repetition . They were about to join hand to hand , and to enter upon the garden , when on a sudden the heavens were darkened , and a mi ghty and rushing wind uprose , and the trees of the vista waved wildly to and fro , and they bowed their tops to the ground , and hid the garden from sig ht ; Flora felt her hand grasped tightly : she turned to look for Percy . He was gone ! and a hideous demon was in his place . Suspicion
lurked in the snaky eyes that darted sharp glances from beneath their pent brows . The fiend raised a long gaunt arm , nnd pointed to the leafy portal . Suddenly it unclosed upon where had been the garden ; but how changed I Trees blasted , flowers withered , fruits rotten upon stagnant waters ; forms of o-hastly horror seen at intervals , but all fixed and motionless . The wind wag hushed in , to deathly stillness ; the sky coldly wrapt in one universal cloud . Enthroned amidst the ruin was a gigantic figure . Despair was writyen in power upon her sullen
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/11/
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