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from the marble , ami which , with the despair incident to neglected genius , had been put aside in some sequestered gallery : Georgina was like an idol which superstition had adorned and placed upon an illuminated shrine . The countess , dazzling as she wan , and floating through the glare as she did , never passed that fair and placid statue unrebuked , and thence she resolved to have it removed from her vicinity .
An opportunity was soon found . Clara was attached to a family proceeding to India ; and now it was said that she was i ^ one to try the effects of her artifices in a new scene . Clara embarked , dead to all the views attributed to her , but not indifferent to the prospect of change , and a sense of relief in departing from a place in which her spirit had been so severely tried . 13 ut a destiny of peculiar hardship attended her . She had not been many weeks at sea , when the angry elements rose in conflict ; the bark so gallant in the fair hour , shrunk , like a wretch struck by paralysis , before the storm ; the masts so
lately , with their proud array of white canvas , tapering to the sky , went by the hoard , and the vessel soon rolled ji wreck upon the waters . The insatiable sea continued to make breaches over her , sweeping , at every ruthless visit , many wretches into the remorseless deep .
•* 'Twas twilight , —and the sunless day went down Over the w ; iste of waters , like a veil Which , if withdrawn , would hut disclose the frown Of one whose hate is masked but to assail—" when hope revived : the sky cleared , the wind abated , the swell subsided , and a vessel , answering the si <_ -iial . ^ of distress
was seen bearing down . Oh , how tlie sta ^ 'i rating current ot man y a dyiiiLC heart leaped into limpid flow at that moment ! A few hours and the wreck was wholly abandoned . The few that were rescued , were received into tin * noble vessel , which had so well weathered the u'sile , with the 1 unsi iiited
kindness which distinguishes the sailor ' s eharitv . Ainoiij ^ the rescued was Clara ; the only woman that hud been saved , and she was at first apparently lifeless . When consciousness returned to her , she awoke in a cabin of conspicuous neatness and comfort ; the couch-bed on which she lay was nice , even elegant , lor an Indian nhawl of ^ reat beaut v was thrown over it as a coverlet . A very few minutes brought back to her the recollection of the storm and all its horrors : she felt that she
had been saved—that she was safe , —and ela ^ pm ^ her hands , she murmured , fct My ( rod , thou lia :-. t not forsaken me ! " An instant after this , she gently put aside the curtain of her couch and perceived a man seated heaide it . He was sunk in slumber ; it appeared as if weary nature , overcome by watching , had been surprised by sleep . She lixed her eyes upon the sunburnt face presented to her in profile ; strange feel-
L Tie Intriguante. W
l tie intriguante . w
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/23/
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