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The provided have leisure to luxuriate in their feelings—to nurse an impression , and reiterate the recollections by which it is deepened and endeared ; but the unprovided encounter a thousand circumstances which drive away regret and dissipate
devotion ; yet , notwithstanding all that toil , trouble , or even time can do , an impression often retreats cannil y ^ as our Caledonian brothers say , into a corner of the heart , there keeping
quiet and secure possession , of which the heart itself is little conscious . In the five years which followed the departure of Clara ' s lover she was tried by a variety of circumstances , which terminated with one of the heaviest of human afflictions , the loss of an excellent mother—that friend of friends on whom time , fortune , nay change itself , works no change ; everything else
on earth may , and perhaps does , cease at moments to love , but a mother never ceases to love her child ; true through every trial , firm amid all that would shake faith , affection , confidence , in any other being , she alone lives so perfectly for the creature she has produced , that self is wholly lost in the sentiment of maternity . If humanity might meet pardon for setting up an idol , and falling down daily before it in the prostration of worshi p ^ that idol must be a woman who concentrated in the
character of a mother all that is sweetest , brightest , noblest , best , in human nature . Clara gradually recovered her serenity and cheerfulness . The flesh w ounds of the healthy soon heal , and so do the heart wounds of the innocent ; the suffering , in either case , is instinct with its own medicament , and no corrosion is present to
prevent the process of healing . Lady Mateland , a distant relative of Clara ' s father , received the orphan girl into her family , not as an acknowledged domestic with a remunerating stipend , but as a dependent with no reward whatever but such as may be found in the familiarity , without affection , which relationship deems itself entitled to assume .
Here it was that she touched the heart of Edward Tinselton , a younger son—one of those persons who seem to exist merely by the sufferance of their class . As he had some fashion , though little fortune , the circumstance did not fail to call attention to Clara ; like a neglected target suddenly set up for a mark , every one wan ready with a shaft . Those who would have
despised the love of so poor a man as Tinselton , and shunned his attentions us likely to keep off rieher offers , yet envied her his devotion ; while Ins relations , who never cared to interfere in favour of his fortune , resolved to do all they could to prejudice his happiness . Wow , in many a midnight conversation ,
held in dressing-room or drawing-room , the deep designs and studied artifices of Clara were canvassed and commented on . JNow , looks and glances were interchanged which spoke a steno-
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The Intriguante , 17
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No , 109 . C
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/17/
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