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BwUlyjr-weA & ** suffering } had bg * n doubly ippiapaot t f *« to ^ l * dr laiik orth ^* Gcustonaed _ couaterpoifte af Edward ' s kindly mjucm&rs fiind speech ; It wa » therefore wi ^ th a wild and yet a di « n *» ad delight that she found herself once more cheered > sootW £ / «** blamed , HMth his perpetual presence . * ' iWftmen make a slight mistake in supposing that they can
cdnceaLJYom their intimates the love which they really andyfot ~ vm&lp ; fepl . Fancy , caprice , a slight preference , or an incipient love ,. they may disguise ; nay , I make no doubt that they oan do so without any very great or very painful effort . But lament the entice and passionate love which alone is deserving of the name— -+ wa& never yet the inhabitant of woman ' s heart but ate
evidence beamed in her eyes and trembled in her tones ; and I am not quite sure that the evidence is not all the more obvious to a skilful and industrious observer the more painfully the effort * to conceal it are made . f
Now , Mr . Green was both a skilful and an industrious observer ; and the love which his niece supposed to lie deeply and impenetrably hidden in the recesses of her own heart wa * not a whit more hidden from him than the sun ' s rays at noon * To nearly any other man than himself either anger or scorn would have been suggested by the discovery that his penniless and plaia niece darjed to look in love , even though it was an unspoken levef * upon hi * sewa , born to vast wealth and radiant in the very perfection of manly beauty . But Mr . Green was , psychologically , different froai most other men . Though—as we have seen in tht caae pf his utter abandonment of his sister , for no greater cause than that she married to the liking of the principal person coot cerned—to wit , herself—he could be guilty of injustice in hi * own proper person , he yet was by no means an admirer of injuan tice when committed by others . And he had been , though a silent , yet by no means an unmoved spectator of the hauteur wgfch which his daughter bestowed her " pitying frown" upott bar poorer and plainer cousin . He did not like his daughter ' s maoir
festation of an unamiable temper , and that was enough * —hia usual mode of gnanhiny the teeth of his mind when he was deteerai * nately fixed upon the performance of any extraordinary piece of self-will . "Why should I suffer this ? " he asked—and the question was a very proper and reasonable one . But be did no * aVt upon his determination not to suffer it in the moat reasonable manner possible .
< . 'The QiJy reasonable plan would have been for the old ggatle maato have settled a handsome slice of his fortune upon tb ? poor girl / ' iaiterrupted George . 'It would so / , resM ^ ad . his fidend , f but the old gentleman contented himself for the Jime by making hi * , will . It would have been well for all parties if hi hade « iw done , &x Ii ^ t he did—tau < J the will vn mattmly mmU wre iMr . i jGre ^ n waa gathered to hi * iatjfa # j » . nlj ^ rtAght . to bam
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/41/
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