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    Clara was a gentle , delicate creature— -one of those creations which nature yields only now and then , when pausing in her prodigality she says— " This shall be unique— 'there shall be nothing like unto this near her or around her . " Fatal distinction ! which makes the darling dear only to its maker—and to the author of its beauty it must look for its beatitude—for the world has for it neither fitting climate nor companionship .

    Clara ' s early trials , such trials as bend , not brace the spirit , had invested her with an habitual softness and resignation which might have paved her way with melting hearts , if hearts —high , holy human hearts , such hearts as God can make , and man unfortunately unmake—she had encountered . She had been in her beautiful childhood one of a little flock , from which wolves had snatched their protector—he had been a kind but

    careless shepherd—one who loved to lie looking at the stars in the far bright region above him , and even while yearning with love towards his young lambs , fatally forgot to guard their interest . He died , and left his widow and her little ones to the fruitage of his sorrows and misfortunes—a heritage which none contested . They had to endure its undivided bitterness , though many wondered how they bore it .

    Such is society . By an inevitable necessity , growing out of a variety of causes , the rich and the necessitous are continually brought into contact : thus are afforded to the former , opportunities for the exercise of a thousand instances of delicate generosity ; but it appears that there is scarcely a quality of rarer growth—it is the aloe of the human soil , and blooms once a century .

    The man who drinks wine every day , often visits a family in which wine is not drank once in a year ; he perhaps finds the father sick , or the mother sad—how does he forbear to send them a dozen from his cellar ? One glass less a day at dinner for a few weeks would permit him to do this without any

    increase of expenditure , save in the virtue of self-denial . But the poor family is probably a proud one . Very probably . But it is an undeniable fkct that a hamper , if properly directed , will find its way to the house it is to go to without any reference to the house it goes / rora .

    Poverty , to meet relief , must be marked with the broad arrow of unconcealablo misery , and it must lay its feelings as bare as its fate ; charity—coarse , common charity—allows no reservation ; but like the experimentalizing auatomist , applies the probe of curiosity till the nerves of sensibility are paralyzed for ever .

    Our laws , indeed , for want and age provide , And strong compulsion pluck * the scrap from pride ; But atill that scrap is bought with many a sigh , And pride embitters what it can ' t deny . The poverty which is 4 i too proud for pity / ' is the pOTWty

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    The Intriguante . 15

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/15/