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• * f iflte g # * f i&& ** y * # ort > producing a syttipathfctit * teeting 6 ? ^ itieau sfo ^ s in & 11 to who m they attempted to attach thefcnsefrfesi < * . V > r £ . : H ^ Wfery ittdoleftt to the last degree , with the instinct witfe ^ feichanimal feeling makes & p ath for a propensity , deckled ^ ft toeing an insipid , ( as I have called the character , but as she by no xft@fti « ar tfdnc ^ ii red it . )
I kttow not which is the most common combination , —simplicity &&A 'intelligence , or cunning and ignorance ; I believe the latter ; ^ fetffitetffe fi rst st anding rule was never to have an opinion of her ^ t ^/ ^ d , consequently , never to offer opposition to any one ; bat > as fc kind of contingent provision for the secure maintenances ef this ttfte , she framed for herself a sort of ambiguous language ,
consisting of looks , sounds , and syllables , which , like the fortune * teller ' s phraseology , appeared to mean what the inquirer wished it should mean . Without the slightest interest in a subject , without the slightest comprehension of it , she would sit and listen with & dormant or alienated mind , satisfying the speaker with u judiciously inserted simper or monosyllable , which would enliven
Jhter eiieiiCfc without materially breaking it . Thus it was that a feeble coxcomb had been relating to her a history of his athletic e&pioite , Whieh , in reality , never exceeded getting in and but of iki& tight-waisted coat ; and that Sir Benjamin Bubble , who despised him as a fool for talking to a girl upon a subject so unsuited to her comprehension , was led ( with so much mare
judgment ) to give her an improved version of his last speech on me OuireHcy , delivered , amid unbounded applause , ' at a public dintier . Thus it was that Mrs . Lang , who had wearied every one , and was in positive despair of finding another listener th&t night , felt due gratitude to the passive ear which received | he remainder of her redundant communicativeness .
Harriet took her quiet way through the phantasmagoria 6 f society upon this plan : * Her care was never to offend , And every creature was her friend / * But she did not gain friends only ; she secured lovers . In correspondence with the character she had assumed , she had a plsupifl ,
even , pLeasing exterior ; no conscious power elevated her carriage , no saIf-possession gave her the dignity which doep not djedaiji , but can dispense with , common aid ; she was one of those wbx > de ^ riuinect to prove the policy of seeking st rengt h in weakness , pf not offending the self-love of others by appearing sufficient to herself , nor were hers the eyes which 4 , j ,
r ' 8 eenj taaay " » \ Come and worship ray ray ; By adoring-, perhaps yoti may moV ^ me . i Her blue eye . half hi ^ < , Said from under its lid , . . , '" *•' IWVd , and I ' m ydUr % itydu loVe me , " '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/21/
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