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graphic language to the clique which employed it ; and all the secretive arts and actions of such moral cowards and assassins were at work . Hail to the open foe ! even though he come armed like
Achilles , and animated with the hatred said to fill the foe of man , and against whom all resistance were vain ; rather than the detestable " snake in the grass" which I could crush with my foot—the sly , slow , soft , stealthy , fair-showing , false-breathing fiend !
Tinselton was compounded of the spoiled materials of many good and line qualities . Ho had taste , which , under the guidance of liberal cultivation , might have imbued him with some portion of poetry and its concomitant good ; but the finger-post of fashion directed him to the tailor and jeweller ; and vanity , having delighted itself with dress and decoration , placed him over head and ears in debt and difficulty . He had wit , which ,
allied to know ledge and learning , might have made him a bright and powerful being ; but lie preferred to attend at the toilet of Venus , rather than serve at the loom of Minerva , " and he rapidly degenerated into a male coquet and a coxcomb . Still the originally fine materials were not utterly debased ; there were times at which lie effused a lustre sufficient to win an
interest in the , wisest , and more than enough to dazzle and delude the inexperienced , and thus Tinselton was admitted to a heart , one of the pulses of which he was not worthy to move . Just «¦ > aiuiirs were approaching the crisis when marriage was about to be mentioned , an event of vast importance to the fortune , whatever it . might Ik * to the feelings , of Tinselton occurred ;
! is elder brother , thanks to a blood horse , was killed , and upon his brother ' s broken bones Tinselion immediatel y mounted into notice and distinction as the . heir of a paralytic earl . Without emigration , Tinselton , now Lord Lentall , found himself in a new world ; cards of inquiry fell at his door like a snow shower ,
and every creaiure but ( , !; ii' ; i won ; to him an altered aspect . j' / cr eloquent eyes had not n brighter beam—her inantlin <>* cheek had not w warmer ll'Iow—her t hrill in *»• voice not a softer tone . Unread in aristocratic economy , she was to a great degree unconscious of the mighty change which had magnified her lover ; and had she been perfectly conscious of it , it would little have affected one who desired fo be the lady of his love , not of
bis fortune . Clara ' s manner in the midst of the adulation which poured round him , appeared to the new lord cold and wanting : a worshipper of the empty ^ lare of grandeur , he could not comprehend ( < hnns quiet ecjunniniity , and , like all the ignorunt , condemned that v > hich lie could not understand . lie felt a strange inflation—an access of self-importance which craved
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/18/
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