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J UWeiiwuity efeb ? r coimu— -tto « «* il * tookb * g and - ** ti ~ spo& » Mfyito wnero y < wi htf * 4 taken ao strong a dislike—wa 4 at ibat Mflaaw ^ ein arkab le ; A nae cui-tied her own deformity the m ore bit-AfcvlyV amds nourished her misanthropy with a deeper determiri&tio * whenever she gazed upon the jovaunt countenance and the gkwi
and bounding gracefulness of the fair creature whose' very kindness seemed to be the result of pity rather than of affectioa . To temfitss- the truth , this did not merely seem to he the ca § e > for Bmily Green knew of no earthly advantages which she . could for an mtairt put into competition with wealth and beauty ; and she weil knew that " poor dear Anne , " as she habitually called hefe *
* ras > to the full as destitute of wealth as of beauty . She pitied her , thfeifefore , rather than loved her ; and the condescending style in *? hioh she always spoke of her or to her , left not the slightest doubt- that the wealthy beauty was very comfortably indifferent as to the feelings whicn her manner and her words might excite in the bosom ot the plain and penniless dependant .
¦ > / T © say that the orphan deeply felt the contemptuous treatment * she received at the hands of the more highly endowed Emily , would be to speak far too faintly . It seared her heart and maddened her brain ; it possessed her ; it gave her up wholly and for ever jto the dark demons of envy , hatred , and revenge . And she / u * 4 her revenge ^—a fe arfu l one ! But I m us t not anticipate .
'If the orphan felt dislike to her cousin Emily , it was- with a widely different feeling that she looked upon Emily ' s only brother , Sdward . In childhood she followed him as a shadow ? in more advanced years she gazed upon him in passionate but unspoken tare ; Her large dark lustrous eyes , which , beautiful as they
wdrey derived an added beauty from their singular and striking contrast to 4 he rest of her features , were rarely and only stealthily teurtifd toward him—but oh ! with what an earnest and living light did they then gaze ! His tones were to her a surpassing wint&io , 1 Mb presence a rapture ; she loved him with an intense and
undivided love , and her glance brightened , and her fierte of tone became > at once softened and mellowed , whenever she had occasion tot address him . 'o Tbv » passed dh years : and Edward Green , having completed Mb Minns at college , and travelled as much as he thought desir * * bleyttettl * dhimself at ^ the Hall" to soothe the growing infirmv ' tit * o * his father , whose life was now fast falling into 4 < the sere
and yellow leaf . " n ^ WJ ^ 'iwNwa of « Mr . Edward " at " the Hall / 1 to depart from iliH ^^ nifyre ^ 'dtiigllted ^ ali the abiders there , even to the meanest of liwb ri ^ Otti wteniai ^ errante ; for his frank and liberal habited aod 1 ^ ^ ki ^ ulto ^ autyi «^ de hhn a faveurite with all But 1 o no iie ^ x I ^ inm « % did vhls ttrrival g ive * uch + raplurou * delight a # ^ io lfo ) ar |^^ MiigM ^ UDi afin g ^ Absence t 4 \ e bad wflfer ^ dmUait tmmk ^ Ltj ^ lint r rvmA + Qwhh ** fA \ j w * mamUut , tem * 4 r -arf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/40/
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