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brot * , as shd sat rigid * m * girty > moveless , » a Queeii eawd ^ b dasqlatiotu , Flara felt , herself dragged fomwrard j fujacwrofcte v ^ wiiee wa& in her ;' earfiM / jCome I ' lit said- * - ' Come T repealed a sullen edbor ^ f to thy home Pf-r- > Home ! ' echo moaned ia the distance . Flora tried to 4 tel \ for help oa Percy , but her voice foiled her , Nearer and nearer j&he was drawn to that fearful garden . As' a last , hope , she .
turned to look back for succour ; and there stood tfee pale spiritlike formot * her father , who , with clasped hands , seemed to imr pjore her to struggle against the destiny that was dragging her onwards . She concentrated all her strength into one desperate effort to free herself from the grasp of the fiend— -and awoke ! Her , first impulse was to rush to her father ' s side - All was safe ; and she returned to her couch , to recover from . the . state of alarm
into which her dream had thrown her . She again tried to compose herself to rest , but in vain ; and her thoughts began to turn towards the future . She soon found that her only chance was in a speedy formation of that future ; in an instant severing the past from the present ; in immediate exertion to free her mind
from the pressure of this last and heaviest trial , and to remove as soon as possible the anxiety resulting from her father ' s state of sickness and destitution . Her own nerves were already beginning to totter , and , unless she opened for herself some immediate and engrossing pursuit , she felt the possibility of her being reduced to a state even worse than his own .
In the silence and solitude of the darkened chamber did Flora summon all her noblest energies ; the gloomy twilight , the absence of externals , the low . breathing of the invalid , coming at intervals , as if to remind her of his dependence upon her , all helped to concentrate her powers , and strengthen her rapidly-forming purposes . ' Yea , I will become an actress ! ' Quickly did the thought flash upon her ; slowly and deliberately did she plan its execution . She recalled her father ' s conversations on the subject ; tried to remember the names that had been associated with his dramatic life .
To her great joy she recollected having seen , in a public print , one that had been in some way connected with the history of her mother ' s death , Once on the alert , her inquiries soon produced a result . The Btage manager , who had announced the event Xo the audience on that memorable night , and who had shown an unusual degree of feeling for Walter ' s distress , was connected with one of the theatres . To him Flora at once resolved' to apply ; to + p \\ him
frankly her circumstances , ask as frank an opinion of him as to the proposed application of her talent , and , if available , entreat his assistance to procure its employment as soon as possible . Not a moment was lost in the prosecution of her plans . The next morn * ing , ah * made the first step into her new world . The perfect simple cityiof Flora's , appearance her undeviating frankness , the affecting earoeftfaftfts , o £ her * very look and every tone , vtould have been « i 4-ficient tojinteropt the moat Sceptical observer \ . tout oomiwr , as she
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/12/
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