Mary Seaham, Volume 2 of 3

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Portman Square, where she was received with af

and proud and happy did the intelligence render the worthy pair. Full and hearty were the congratul

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r nothing but that indolence of habit and disposition which a long sojourn in the luxurious East often engenders, and made little more impression upon Mary's mind, than the costly shawls in which the orientalized lady at

display then distracts our spirits. Over the vast city and its ever-moving myriads, seems to hang one dark, thick, impenetrable veil, beneath whose dingy folds, joy and misery, innocence and crime, indigence and wealth, alike hurry on

feels the throbbing heart of man," may calmly image forth his destined theme for thought, or song. "The river of life that flows through streets, tumultuous, bearing along so many gallant hearts, so many wrecks of humanity;-the many homes and households

face or dark eye startled her momentarily from her trance, by their fancied or seeming similitude to that loved being, whom some suddenly eclipsing power, like the one now v

ot to lose her quite so soon, and at the same time mentioned his intention of remaining in Edinburgh a little longer than he had previously intended, according to the urgent solicitations of his sister Alice, who had so few opportunities of enjoying the society of her relations-and at the same time, for the more intereste

bject. All that he could inform them concerning the matter was, that some business was pending, which would prevent the marriage from taking place as soon as had been intended; that Mrs. de Burgh had heard from her cousin, Mr. Trevor, who seemed to be considerably distressed by this impediment, and to shrink from holding any direct communion with his betrothed until matters had assumed a more favourable

the bare idea was treason to

t deal of Mrs. de Burgh

d uncomfortable herself, and it only distressed her to see Mary under the present unsatisfactory aspect of affairs. Then her confinement intervened, and after that she was surrounded by

ast, then, though they may not love us less-though they may feel for and pity us, nay, would do much to restore our happiness, if in their power; yet if that cannot be-then-"come again when less sad and sorrowful, when your lips once more can give back s

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oking a little delicate, but only the more beautiful from that cause,

n beaming from his handsome features, gazing upon his lovely wife, an

y family prosperity, and tears of heartfelt

on, now reawakened or recalled, might never again be put to silence, or lose their reasserted power. Alas! for the transitory nature of pure and holy influences like the present, upon the light, incon

ruit, and their sweet

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valescence, and the allurements and temptations of the ensuing season, tended too surely to the overthrow of those hopes and aspirations, in w