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5 | A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS | WE didn't get done tinkering the machinery till away late in the afternoon, and so it was so close to sundown when we got home that we never stopped on our road, but made a break for the sycamores as tight as we could go, to tell Jake what the delay was, and have him wait till we could go to Brace's and find out how th... | {
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6 | PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS | WE tramped along behind Jim and Lem till we come to the back stile where old Jim's cabin was that he was captivated in, the time we set him free, and here come the dogs piling around us to say howdy, and there was the lights of the house, too; so we warn't afeard any more, and was going to climb over, but Tom says: “H... | {
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7 | A NIGHT'S VIGIL | BENNY she was looking pretty sober, and she sighed some, now and then; but pretty soon she got to asking about Mary, and Sid, and Tom's aunt Polly, and then Aunt Sally's clouds cleared off and she got in a good humor and joined in on the questions and was her lovingest best self, and so the rest of the supper went alon... | {
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8 | TALKING WITH THE GHOST | IT warn't very cheerful at breakfast. Aunt Sally she looked old and tired and let the children snarl and fuss at one another and didn't seem to notice it was going on, which wasn't her usual style; me and Tom had a plenty to think about without talking; Benny she looked like she hadn't had much sleep, and whenever she'... | {
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9 | FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP | IN the next two or three days Dummy he got to be powerful popular. He went associating around with the neighbors, and they made much of him, and was proud to have such a rattling curiosity among them. They had him to breakfast, they had him to dinner, they had him to supper; they kept him loaded up with hog and hominy,... | {
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10 | THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS | THEM awful words froze us solid. We couldn't move hand or foot for as much as half a minute. Then we kind of come to, and lifted the old man up and got him into his chair, and Benny petted him and kissed him and tried to comfort him, and poor old Aunt Sally she done the same; but, poor things, they was so broke up and ... | {
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11 | TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS | WELL, that was a hard month on us all. Poor Benny, she kept up the best she could, and me and Tom tried to keep things cheerful there at the house, but it kind of went for nothing, as you may say. It was the same up at the jail. We went up every day to see the old people, but it was awful dreary, because the old man wa... | {
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1 | None | "Incubo. Look to the cavalier. What ails he? . . . . . Hostess. And in such good clothes, too!" BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Love's Pilgrimage_.
"Theod. I have a brother--there my last hope! . Thus as you find me, without fear or wisdom, I now am only child of Hope and Danger." --Ibid.
The time employed by... | {
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2 | None | "His curse! Dost comprehend what that word means? Shot from a father's angry breath." JAMES SHIRLEY: _The Brothers_.
"This term is fatal, and affrights me." --Ibid.
"Those fond philosophers that magnify Our human nature . . . . . . Conversed but little with the world-they knew not The fierce vex... | {
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3 | None | "Nous vous mettrons a couvert, Repondit le pot de fer Si quelque matiere dure Vous menace d'aventure, Entre deux je passerai, Et du coup vous sauverai. . . . . . . . . Le pot de terre en souffre!" --LA FONTAINE.
["We, replied the Iron Pot, wil... | {
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4 | None | "Le bien nous le faisons: le mal c'est la Fortune. On a toujours raison, le Destin toujours tort." --LA FONTAINE.
[The Good, we effect ourselves; the Evil is the handiwork of Fortune. Mortals are always in the right, Destiny always in the wrong.]
Upon the early morning of the day commemorated by the histo... | {
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5 | None | "He is a cunning coachman that can turn well in a narrow room." Old Play: from Lamb's _Specimens_.
"Here are two pilgrims, And neither knows one footstep of the way." HEYWOOD's Duchess of Suffolk, Ibid.
The chaise had scarce driven from the inn-door when a coach stopped to change horses on its last stage to th... | {
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6 | None | "He comes-- Yet careless what he brings; his one concern Is to conduct it to the destined inn; And having dropp'd the expected bag, pass on---- To him indifferent whether grief or joy." COWPER: Description of the Postman.
The pale gentleman entered Mr. Morton's shop; and, looki... | {
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7 | None | "Give the gentle South Yet leave to court these sails." BEAUMONT AND FLLTCHER: Beggar's Bush.
"Cut your cloth, sir, According to your calling." --Ibid.
Meanwhile the brothers were far away, and He who feeds the young ravens made their paths pleasant to their feet. Philip had broken to ... | {
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8 | None | "_Don Salluste (souriunt)_. Je paire Que vous ne pensiez pas a moi?" --Ruy Blas. " _Don Salluste_. Cousin! Don Cesar. De vos bienfaits je n'aurai nulle envie, Tant que je trouverai vivant ma libre vie." --Ibid.
Don Sallust (smiling). I'll lay a wager you won't think of me? Don Sallust. ... | {
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9 | None | "But oh, what storm was in that mind!" --CRABBE. _Ruth_ While Philip mused, and his brother fell into the happy sleep of childhood, in a room in the principal hotel of the town sat three persons, Arthur Beaufort, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Blackwell.
"And so," said the first, "he rejected every overture from the Beauforts... | {
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10 | None | "I'll carry thee In sorrow's arms to welcome Misery."
HEYWOOD's Duchess of Sufolk.
"Who's here besides foul weather?" SHAKSPEARE Lear.
The sun was as bright and the sky as calm during the journey of the orphans as in the last. They avoided, as before, the main roads, and their way lay through lands... | {
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11 | None | "Vous me rendrez mon frere!" CASIMER DELAVIGNE: _Les Enfans d'Edouard_.
['You shall restore me my brother!]
One evening, a week after this event, a wild, tattered, haggard youth knocked at the door of Mr. Robert Beaufort. The porter slowly presented himself.
"Is your master at home? I must see him instantly." "Th... | {
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12 | None | "But you have found the mountain's top--there sit On the calm flourishing head of it; And whilst with wearied steps we upward go, See us and clouds below." --COWLEY.
It was true that Sidney was happy in his new home, and thither we must now trace him.
On reaching the tow... | {
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1 | None | "The knight of arts and industry, And his achievements fair." THOMSON'S _Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. _ In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue ----, there might be seen, at the time I now... | {
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2 | None | "Happy the man who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid shilling !" --The Splendid Shilling.
"And wherefore should they take or care for thought, The unreasoning vulgar willingly obey, And leaving toil and poverty behind. Run forth by different ways, the blissful boon to find." ... | {
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3 | None | "All his success must on himself depend, He had no money, counsel, guide, or friend; With spirit high John learned the world to brave, And in both senses was a ready knave." --CRABBE.
"My grandfather sold walking-sticks and umbrellas in the little passage by Exeter 'Change... | {
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4 | None | "And she's a stranger Women--beware women." --MIDDLETON.
"As we love our youngest children best, So the last fruit of our affection, Wherever we bestow it, is most strong; Since 'tis indeed our latest harvest-home, Last merriment 'fore winter!" WEBSTER, _Devil's Law C... | {
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5 | None | "The cursed carle was at his wonted trade, Still tempting heedless men into his snare, In witching wise, as I before have said; But when he saw, in goodly gear array'd, The grave majestic knight approaching nigh, His countenance fell." --THOMSON, _Castle of Indolence_. ... | {
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6 | None | "Then out again he flies to wing his marry round." THOMPSON'S _Castle of Indolence_.
"Again he gazed, 'It is,' said he, 'the same; There sits he upright in his seat secure, As one whose conscience is correct and pure.'" --CRABBE.
The adventurers arrived at Tours, and established themselves there... | {
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7 | None | "A desert wild Before them stretched bare, comfortless, and vast, With gibbets, bones, and carcasses defiled." THOMPSON'S _Castle of Indolenece_.
Mr. Gawtrey did not wish to give his foe the triumph of thinking he had driven him from Milan; he resolved to stay and brave it out; but when he appeare... | {
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8 | None | "Gaunt Beggary and Scorn with many bell-hounds more." THOMSON'S _Castle of Indolence_.
"The other was a fell, despiteful fiend." --Ibid.
"Your happiness behold! then straight a wand He waved, an anti-magic power that hath Truth from illusive falsehood to command." --Ibid.
"But what for us, the... | {
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9 | None | "Meantime a moving scene was open laid, That lazar house." --THOMSON'S _Castle of Indolence_.
It was near midnight. At the mouth of the lane in which Gawtrey resided there stood four men. Not far distant, in the broad street at angles with the lane, were heard the wheels of carriages and the sound of music. A lady, f... | {
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10 | None | "Sleep no more!" --_Macbeth_ After winding through gloomy and labyrinthine passages, which conducted to a different range of cellars from those entered by the unfortunate Favart, Gawtrey emerged at the foot of a flight of stairs, which, dark, narrow, and in many places broken, had been probably appropriated to servant... | {
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11 | None | "Gently moved By the soft wind of whispering silks." --DECKER.
The reader may remember that while Monsieur Favart and Mr. Birnie were holding commune in the lane, the sounds of festivity were heard from a house in the adjoining street. To that house we are now summoned.
At Paris, the gaieties of balls, or... | {
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12 | GUIOMAR. | "Those devotions I am to pay Are written in my heart, not in this book."
Enter RUTILIO. "I am pursued--all the ports are stopped too, Not any hope to escape--behind, before me, On either side, I am beset." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _The Custom of the Country_ The party were just gone--it w... | {
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13 | GUIOMAR. | "Speak! What are you?"
RUTILIO. "Gracious woman, hear me. I am a stranger: And in that I answer all your demands." _Custom of the Country_.
Eugenie replaced the curtain. And scarcely had she done so ere the steps in the outer room entered the chamber where she stood. Her servant was accompanied by two off... | {
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14 | None | "A silver river small In sweet accents Its music vents; The warbling virginal To which the merry birds do sing, Timed with stops of gold the silver string." _Sir Richard Fanshawe_.
One evening, several weeks after the events just commemorated,... | {
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1 | LEILA IN THE CASTLE--THE SIEGE. | The calmer contemplations and more holy anxieties of Leila were, at length, broken in upon by intelligence, the fearful interest of which absorbed the whole mind and care of every inhabitant of the castle. Boabdil el Chico had taken the field, at the head of a numerous army. Rapidly scouring the country, he had descend... | {
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2 | ALMAMEN'S PROPOSED ENTERPRISE.--THE THREE ISRAELITES--CIRCUMSTANCE
IMPRESSES EACH CHARACTER WITH A VARYING DIE. | Boadbil followed up his late success with a series of brilliant assaults on-the neighbouring fortresses. Granada, like a strong man bowed to the ground, wrenched one after one the bands that had crippled her liberty and strength; and, at length, after regaining a considerable portion of the surrounding territory, the k... | {
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3 | THE FUGITIVE AND THE MEETING | In their different directions the rival kings were equally successful. Salobrena, but lately conquered by the Christians, was thrown into a commotion by the first glimpse of Boabdil's banners; the populace rose, beat back their Christian guards, and opened the gates to the last of their race of kings. The garrison alon... | {
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4 | ALMAMEN HEARS AND SEES, BUT REFUSES TO BELIEVE; FOR THE BRAIN,
OVERWROUGHT, GROWS DULL, EVEN IN THE KEENEST. | The dawn broke slowly upon the chamber, and Almamen still slept. It was the Sabbath of the Christians--that day on which the Saviour rose from the dead--thence named so emphatically and sublimely by the early Church THE LORD'S DAY.
[Before the Christian era, the Sunday was, however, called the Lord's day--i.e., ... | {
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5 | IN THE FERMENT OF GREAT EVENTS THE DREGS RISE. | The Israelites did not limit their struggles to the dark conspiracy to which allusion has been made. In some of the Moorish towns that revolted from Ferdinand, they renounced the neutrality they had hitherto maintained between Christian and Moslem. Whether it was that they were inflamed by the fearful and wholesale bar... | {
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6 | BOADBIL'S RETURN.--THE REAPPEARANCE OF GRANADA. | The third morning from this interview, a rumour reached Granada that Boabdil had been repulsed in his assault on the citadel of Salobrena with a severe loss; that Hernando del Pulgar had succeeded in conducting to its relief a considerable force; and that the army of Ferdinand was on its march against the Moorish king.... | {
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7 | THE CONFLAGRATION.--THE MAJESTY OF AN INDIVIDUAL PASSION IN THE MIDST OF
HOSTILE THOUSANDS. | It was the eve of a great and general assault upon Granada, deliberately planned by the chiefs of the Christian army. The Spanish camp (the most gorgeous Christendom had ever known) gradually grew calm and hushed. The shades deepened--the stars burned forth more serene and clear. Bright, in that azure air, streamed the... | {
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1 | THE GREAT BATTLE. | The day slowly dawned upon that awful night; and the Moors, still upon the battlements of Granada, beheld the whole army of Ferdinand on its march towards their wails. At a distance lay the wrecks of the blackened and smouldering camp; while before them, gaudy and glittering pennons waving, and trumpets sounding, came ... | {
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2 | THE NOVICE. | It was in one of the cells of a convent renowned for the piety of its inmates and the wholesome austerity of its laws that a young novice sat alone. The narrow casement was placed so high in the cold grey wall as to forbid to the tenant of the cell the solace of sad or the distraction of pious thoughts, which a view of... | {
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3 | THE PAUSE BETWEEN DEFEAT AND SURRENDER. | The unfortunate Boabdil plunged once more amidst the recesses of the Alhambra. Whatever his anguish or his despondency, none were permitted to share, or even to witness, his emotions. But he especially resisted the admission to his solitude, demanded by his mother, implored by his faithful Amine, and sorrowfully urged ... | {
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4 | THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY HORSEMAN. | It was a burning and sultry noon, when, through a small valley, skirted by rugged and precipitous hills, at the distance of several leagues from Granada, a horseman, in complete armour, wound his solitary way; His mail was black and unadorned; on his vizor waved no plume. But there was something in his carriage and mi... | {
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5 | THE SACRIFICE. | The sun was now sinking slowly through those masses of purple cloud which belong to Iberian skies; when, emerging from the forest, the travellers saw before them a small and lovely plain, cultivated like a garden. Rows of orange and citron trees were backed by the dark green foliage of vines; and these again found a ba... | {
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6 | THE RETURN--THE RIOT--THE TREACHERY--AND THE DEATH. | It was the eve of the fatal day on which Granada was to be delivered to the Spaniards, and in that subterranean vault beneath the house of Almamen, before described, three elders of the Jewish persuasion were met.
"Trusty and well-beloved Ximen," cried one, a wealthy and usurious merchant, with a twinkling and humid ... | {
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7 | THE END. | Day dawned upon Granada: the populace had sought their homes, and a profound quiet wrapped the streets, save where, from the fires committed in the late tumult, was yet heard the crash of roofs or the crackle of the light and fragrant timber employed in those pavilions of the summer. The manner in which the mansions of... | {
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1 | THE ANTE-CHAMBER. | The Tragi-Comedy of Court Intrigue, which had ever found its principal theatre in Spain since the accession of the House of Austria to the throne, was represented with singular complication of incident and brilliancy of performance during the reign of Philip the Third. That monarch, weak, indolent, and superstitious, l... | {
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2 | THE LOVER AND THE CONFIDANT. | Calderon received the young soldier at the door of his chamber with marked and almost affectionate respect. “Don Martin,” said he, and there seemed a touch of true feeling in the tremor of his rich sweet voice, “I owe you the greatest debt one man can incur to another--it was your hand that set before my feet their fir... | {
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3 | A RIVAL. | Calderon’s eyes were fixed musingly on the door which closed on Fonseca’s martial and noble form.
“Great contrasts among men!” said he, half aloud. “All the classes into which naturalists ever divided the animal world contained not the variety that exists between man and man. And yet, we all agree in one object of ou... | {
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4 | CIVIL AMBITION, AND ECCLESIASTICAL. | Scarcely had the prince vanished, before the door that led from the anteroom was opened, and an old man, in the ecclesiastical garb, entered the secretary’s cabinet.
“Do I intrude, my son?” said the churchman.
“No, father, no; I never more desired your presence--your counsel. It is not often that I stand halting an... | {
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5 | THE TRUE FATA MORGANA. | In the royal chamber, before a table covered with papers, sat the King and his secretary. Grave, sullen, and taciturn, there was little in the habitual manner of Philip the Third that could betray to the most experienced courtier the outward symptoms of favour or caprice. Education had fitted him for the cloister, but ... | {
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6 | WEB UPON WEB. | The next day, to the discomfiture of the courtiers, Calderon and the Infant of Spain were seen together, publicly, on the parade; and the secretary made one of the favoured few who attended the prince at the theatre. His favour was greater, his power more dazzling than ever it had been known before. No cause for the br... | {
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7 | THE OPEN COUNTENANCE, THE CONCEALED THOUGHTS | The next day, at noon, Calderon visited Fonseca in his place of confinement. The young man was seated by a window that overlooked a large dull court-yard, with a neglected and broken fountain in the centre, leaning his cheek upon his hand. His long hair was dishevelled, his dress disordered, and a gloomy frown darkened... | {
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8 | THE ESCAPE | It was midnight in the chapel of the convent.
The moonlight shone with exceeding lustre through the tall casements, and lit into a ghastly semblance of life the marble images of saint and martyr, that threw their long shadows over the consecrated floor. Nothing could well be conceived more dreary, solemn, and sepulch... | {
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9 | THE COUNTERPLOT. | Calderon had not long left the young soldier before the governor of the prison entered to pay his respects to a captive of such high birth and military reputation.
Fonseca, always blunt and impatient of mood, was not in a humour to receive and return compliments; but the governor had scarcely seated himself ere he st... | {
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10 | WE REAP WHAT WE SOW. | With emotions of joy and triumph, such as had never yet agitated his reckless and abandoned youth, the Infant of Spain bent his way towards the lonely house on the road to Fuencarral. He descended from his carriage when about a hundred yards from the abode, and proceeded on foot to the appointed place.
The Jew opened... | {
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11 | HOWSOEVER THE RIVERS WIND, THE OCEAN RECEIVES THEM ALL. | Meanwhile Fonseca had reached the convent; had found the porter gone; and, with a mind convulsed with apprehension and doubt, had flown on the wings of love and fear to the house indicated by Calderon. The grim and solitary mansion came just in sight--the moon streaming sadly over its gray and antique walls--when he he... | {
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1 | None | Who art thou, fair one, who usurp'st the place Of Blanch, the lady of the matchless grace? --LAMB.
IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few flowers and fresh ... | {
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2 | None | Is stormy life preferred to this serene? ---YOUNG: _Satires_.
AND the windows were closed in, and night had succeeded to evening, and the little party at the cottage were grouped together. Mrs. Leslie was quietly seated at her tambour-frame; Lady Vargrave, leaning her cheek on her hand, seemed absorbed in a volume be... | {
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3 | None | BUT come, thou Goddess, fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne!
. . . . . .
To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night. --_L'Allegro_.
But come, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Come, divinest Melancholy!
. . . . . .
There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marb... | {
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4 | None | TOWARDS the end of the week we received a card from the town ladies. _Vicar of Wakefield_.
THE curate was gone, and the lessons suspended; otherwise--as like each to each as sunshine or cloud permitted--day followed day in the calm retreat of Brook-Green,--when, one morning, Mrs. Leslie, with a letter in her hand, ... | {
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5 | None | TELL me, Sophy, my dear, what do you think of our new visitors? _Vicar of Wakefield_.
MRS. MERTON and her daughter were already in the middle drawing-room, seated on either side of Mrs. Leslie,--the former a woman of quiet and pleasing exterior, her face still handsome, and if not intelligent, at least expressive of ... | {
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6 | None | TWO lovely damsels cheer my lonely walk. --LAMB: _Album Verses_.
AFTER dinner there was still light enough for the young people to stroll through the garden. Mrs. Merton, who was afraid of the damp, preferred staying within; and she was so quiet, and made herself so much at home, that Lady Vargrave, to use Mrs. Lesli... | {
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7 | None | DOST thou feel The solemn whispering influence of the scene Oppressing thy young heart, that thou dost draw More closely to my side? --F. HEMANS: _Wood Walk and Hymn_.
CAROLINE and Evelyn, as was natural, became great friends. They were not kindred to each other in disposition; but they were thrown together, an... | {
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8 | None | FRIEND after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end. --J. MONTGOMERY.
THAT night Mrs. Leslie sought Lady Vargrave in her own room. As she entered gently she observed that, late as the hour was, Lady Vargrave was stationed by the open window, and... | {
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9 | None | THE greater part of them seemed to be charmed with his presence. MACKENZIE: _The Man of the World_.
IT was with the greatest difficulty that Evelyn could at last be persuaded to consent to the separation from her mother; she wept bitterly at the thought. But Lady Vargrave, though touched, was firm, and her firmness w... | {
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10 | None | _Julio_. Wilt thou have him? --_The Maid in the Mill_.
LORD VARGRAVE heard the next morning, with secret distaste and displeasure, of Evelyn's intended visit to the Mertons. He could scarcely make any open objection to it; but he did not refrain from many insinuations as to its impropriety.
"My dear friend," said h... | {
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11 | None | THERE stands the Messenger of Truth--there stands The Legate of the skies. --COWPER.
FROM that night Lumley found no opportunity for private conversation with Evelyn; she evidently shunned to meet with him alone. She was ever with her mother or Mrs. Leslie or the good curate, who spent much of his time at the cotta... | {
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12 | None | TOUT notre raisonnement se reduit a ceder au sentiment. *--PASCAL.
* "All our reasoning reduces itself to yielding to sentiment."
LORD VARGRAVE, who had no desire to remain alone with the widow when the guests were gone, arranged his departure for the same day as that fixed for Mrs. Merton's; and as their road lay... | {
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13 | None | AND I can listen to thee yet, Can lie upon the plain; And listen till I do beget That golden time again. --WORDSWORTH.
IT was past midnight--hostess and guests had retired to repose--when Lady Vargrave's door opened gently. The lady herself was kneeling at the foot of the bed; the moonlight came through the... | {
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1 | None | YOU still are what you were, sir! . . . . . . . . . With most quick agility could turn And return; make knots and undo them, Give forked counsel. --_Volpone, or the Fox_.
BEFORE a large table, covered with parliamentary papers, sat Lumley Lord Vargrave. His complexion, though still healthy, had faded from the fre... | {
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2 | None | YOU shall be Horace, and Tibullus I.--POPE.
LORD VARGRAVE was disturbed from his revery by the entrance of the Earl of Saxingham.
"You are welcome!" said Lumley, "welcome! --the very man I wished to see."
Lord Saxingham, who was scarcely altered since we met with him in the last series of this work, except that h... | {
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3 | None | ANIMUM nunc hoc celerem, nunc dividit illuc. *--VIRGIL.
* "Now this, now that, distracts the active mind."
THE late Mr. Templeton had been a banker in a provincial town, which was the centre of great commercial and agricultural activity and enterprise. He had made the bulk of his fortune in the happy days of paper ... | {
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4 | None | OUBLIE de Tullie, et brave du Senat. * VOLTAIRE: _Brutus_, Act ii. sc. 1.
* "Forgotten by Tully and bullied by the Senate."
IN the Lords that evening the discussion was animated and prolonged,--it was the last party debate of the session. The astute Opposition did not neglect to bring prominently, though incident... | {
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5 | None | HOMUNCULI quanti sunt, cum recogito. *--PLAUTUS.
* "When I reflect, how great your little men are in their own consideration!"
IT is obvious that for many reasons we must be brief upon the political intrigue in which the scheming spirit of Lord Vargrave was employed. It would, indeed, be scarcely possible to pr... | {
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6 | None | LA sante de l'ame n'est pas plus assuree que celle du corps; et quoique l'on paraisse eloigne des passions, on n'est pas moins en danger de s'y laisser emporter que de tomber malade quand on se porte bien. *--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
* "The health of the soul is not more sure than that of the body; and although we... | {
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7 | None | NIHIL est aliud magnum quam multa minuta. *--VETUS. AUCTOR.
* "There is nothing so great as the collection of the minute."
AN anxious event disturbed the smooth current of cheerful life at Merton Rectory. One morning when Evelyn came down, she missed little Sophy, who had contrived to establish for herself the undi... | {
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8 | None | _Arethusa_. 'Tis well, my lord, your courting of ladies.
. . . . . .
_Claremont_. Sure this lady has a good turn done her against her will.
PHILASTER.
In the breakfast-room at Knaresdean, the same day, and almost at the same hour, in which occurred the scene and conversation at the rectory recorded in our la... | {
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9 | None | OUT of our reach the gods have laid Of time to come the event; And laugh to see the fools afraid Of what the knaves invent. --SEDLEY, _from Lycophron_.
THE next day Caroline returned to the rectory in Lady Raby's carriage; and two hours after her arrival came Lord Vargrave. Mr. Merton had secured the princi... | {
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1 | None | ABROAD uneasy, nor content at home. . . . . . . And Wisdom shows the ill without the cure.
HAMMOND: _Elegies_.
TWO or three days after the interview between Lord Vargrave and Maltravers, the solitude of Burleigh was relieved by the arrival of Mr. Cleveland. The good old gentleman, when free from attacks of the gout... | {
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2 | None | PASSION, as frequently is seen, Subsiding, settles into spleen; Hence, as the plague of happy life, I ran away from party strife. --MATTHEW GREEN.
Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate The dark decrees and will of fate. --_Ibid. _ ACCORDING to his engagement, Vargrave breakfasted the next morning at Burleigh. ... | {
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3 | None | ALSE from that forked hill, the boasted seat Of studious Peace and mild Philosophy, Indignant murmurs mote be heard to threat. --WEST.
MR. CLEVELAND wanted to enrich one of his letters with a quotation from Ariosto, which he but imperfectly remembered. He had seen the book he wished to refer to in the little stud... | {
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4 | None | HENCE oft to win some stubborn maid, Still does the wanton god assume The martial air, the gay cockade, The sword, the shoulder-knot, and plume.
MARRIOTT.
THE hall was cleared, the sufferer had been removed, and Maltravers was left alone with Cleveland and Evelyn.
He simply and shortly narrated the adve... | {
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5 | None | SEE how the skilful lover spreads his toils. --STILLINGFLEET.
THE party had not long returned to the rectory, and the admiral's carriage was ordered, when Lord Vargrave made his appearance. He descanted with gay good-humour on his long drive, the bad roads, and his disappointment at the _contretemps_ that awaited him... | {
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6 | None | I AM forfeited to eternal disgrace if you do not commiserate. . . . . . . Go to, then, raise, recover. --BEN JONSON: _Poetaster_.
THE next morning Admiral Legard and his nephew were conversing in the little cabin consecrated by the name of the admiral's "own room."
"Yes," said the veteran, "it would be moonshine an... | {
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7 | None | WHY value, then, that strength of mind they boast, As often varying, and as often lost?
HAWKINS BROWNE (translated by SOAME JENYNS).
MALTRAVERS was lying at length, with his dogs around him, under a beech-tree that threw its arms over one of the calm still pieces of water that relieved the groves of Burleigh, whe... | {
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8 | None | THE more he strove To advance his suit, the farther from her love.
DRYDEN: _Theodore and Honoria_.
THE line of conduct which Vargrave now adopted with regard to Evelyn was craftily conceived and carefully pursued. He did not hazard a single syllable which might draw on him a rejection of his claims; but at the sa... | {
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9 | None | A SMOKE raised with the fume of sighs.
_Romeo and Juliet_.
IT is certain that Evelyn experienced for Maltravers sentiments which, if not love, might easily be mistaken for it. But whether it were that master-passion, or merely its fanciful resemblance,--love in early youth and innocent natures, if of sudden growth,... | {
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10 | None | OBSCURIS vera involvens. *--VIRGIL.
* "Wrapping truth in obscurity."
A DAY or two after the date of the last chapter, Evelyn and Caroline were riding out with Lord Vargrave and Mr. Merton, and on returning home they passed through the village of Burleigh.
"Maltravers, I suppose, has an eye to the county one of th... | {
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1 | None | _Luce_. Is the wind there? That makes for me. _Isab_. Come, I forget a business. _Wit without Money_.
LORD VARGRAVE'S travelling-carriage was at his door, and he himself was putting on his greatcoat in his library, when Lord Saxingham entered.
"What! you are going into the country?"
"Yes; I wrote you word,--to se... | {
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2 | None | MA fortune va prendre une face nouvelle. * RACINE. _Androm_. , Act i. sc. 1.
* "My fortune is about to take a turn."
THE next morning Vargrave inquired the way to Mr. Winsley's, and walked alone to the house of the brewer. The slim secretary went to inspect the cathedral.
Mr. Winsley was a little, thi... | {
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3 | None | THIS is the house, sir. --_Love's Pilgrimage_, Act iv, sc. 2.
Redeunt Saturnia regna. *--VIRGIL.
* "A former state of things returns."
THE next morning, Lumley and his slender companion were rolling rapidly over the same road on which, sixteen years ago, way-worn and weary, Alice Darvil had first met with Mrs. Le... | {
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4 | None | BUT how were these doubts to be changed into absolute certainty? EDGAR HUNTLEY.
THE next morning, while it was yet dark, Lord Vargrave's carriage picked up Mr. Onslow at the door of a large old-fashioned house, at the entrance of the manufacturing town of -----. The party were silent and sleepy till they arrived at L... | {
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5 | None | PENDENT opera interrupta. *--VIRGIL.
* "The things begun are interrupted and suspended."
THE history Vargrave had heard he revolved much when he retired to rest. He could not but allow that there was still little ground for more than conjecture that Alice Darvil and Alice Lady Vargrave were one and the same person.... | {
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6 | None | NOUGHT under Heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man, and all his mind possess, As Beauty's love-bait. --SPENSER.
LEGARD was, as I have before intimated, a young man of generous and excellent dispositions, though somewhat spoiled by the tenor of his education, and the gay and reckless society which had ad... | {
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1 | None | THE privilege that statesmen ever claim, Who private interest never yet pursued, But still pretended 'twas for others' good. . . . . . . From hence on every humorous wind that veered With shifted sails a several course you steered. _Absalom and Achitophel_, Part ii.
LORD VARGRAVE had for more than a fortnight r... | {
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2 | None | HEARD you that? What prodigy of horror is disclosing? --LILLO: _Fatal Curiosity_.
THE unhappy companion of Cesarini's flight was soon discovered and recaptured; but all search for Cesarini himself proved ineffectual, not only in the neighbourhood of St. Cloud, but in the surrounding country and in Paris. The only com... | {
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3 | . . . MISERY | That gathers force each moment as it rolls, And must, at last, o'erwhelm me. --LILLO: _Fatal Curiosity_.
MALTRAVERS found Evelyn alone; she turned towards him with her usual sweet smile of welcome; but the smile vanished at once, as her eyes met his changed and working countenance; cold drops stood upon the rigid a... | {
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4 | None | PITY me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. --_Hamlet_.
LETTER FROM ERNEST MALTRAVERS TO EVELYN CAMERON.
EVELYN!
All that you have read of faithlessness and perfidy will seem tame to you when compared with that conduct which you are doomed to meet from me. We must part, and for ever. We ha... | {
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