Mary Seaham, Volume 2 of 3

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ed the carriage, he had sat a few minutes by Mary's side, tenderly and soothingly holding her hand-till the first

moment, but proposed taking her up-stairs to his chambers, to give her wine to recruit the poor girl's agitated spirits; but this Mary

reen grass plot, sparkling fountain and overhanging elms, just then putting forth their early shoots, and between which the venerable walls and buttresses, of the Temple Hall, revealed their sober beauties; the sweet notes of a thrush sounding from the garden below. All these combined, affording as it did, so strong a contrast to the din, stir, and turmoil from without, as well as the bewildering disquiet and agit

oyment on his return to England. He remembered her bright and happy countenance then-and the change it now exhibited, so touched and saddened the young man's feelings at the time, that

d be done-something ascertained-anything will be better than this miserable state of uncertainty and

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r, under the present circumstances of affairs-whatever they may be-Eugene's engagement to me, involves

d, with something of pleasurable hope lighting up hi

period, one of any length, or duration, should be agreed upon, for the postponement of our marriage, he need not fancy I should impatiently shrink from such an engagement. And it is this, that I should like to be conveyed to Eugene. I would write-but writing is so very painful, and unsatisfactory, under such circumstances; I can quite enter into poor Eugene's feelings on that point. I would ask you, dear Arthur, to go and speak to him-if," and she looked anxiously into her brother's fac

s all this equivocating, tantalizing mystery that I can neither abide or understand. But," he continued, as Mary again droopingly listened to his words, "I am not so selfish as to let any impatient

spirits and divert her mind, before leaving the classic spot in which they found themselves. He conducted her down the Italian descent into the garden with the broad river gliding sl

of learning, ran over the names of those, who from "the great of old," to more modern, but none the less eminent instances, had either in connection with law, literature, o

oung man suddenly exclaimed, "from whom do you t

display of interest, "then I was right,

ry with regard to your marriage, the report of which, it seems, reached his ears; though it appears he left Wales some months ago, and has since been living, in great seclusion, in some quiet, antiquated nook, in this very neighbourhood. Mary, what can

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d ill in body, and worn in mind. I cannot but think that since that time he has suffered, and is still suffering, from some newly arisen source of pain, or disquietude; and my dear sister," Arthur added, with a smile of playful accusation

elf being the cause of sufferings, such as she now so well could understand, but especially to that good

red to add, that I was sure it would have given you pleasure to have seen him. He shook his head with a sad smile, and said, 'he had seen you more than once since you came to London.' Dear Mary, you seem as if doomed to mystery in

ue impression of the same kind made upon her own mind; but

ioned relations had been deferred expressly for their nephew's convenience, they almost

often in days to come, when the poignant anguish then and there so softened and assuaged, had again died away, never to be recalled by the powers of memory-the place, and the hour, would f

oor, they fell in with several of his f

ped aside, and made way fo

e, but much respected, member of the Temple community, by his sociable, engaging