Nature and Art

confirmed the truth of the intelligence, and acknowledged, that, in taking a wife, his sole view had been to obtain a kind companion and friend, who would bear with his failings and

what has been hinted to me is true? Is it po

Henry. "I did not wish her to be be

se anyone, that would be acting unlike a Christian; but do you imagine

ccasion, therefore, he began to raise his voice, and even (in the coarse expression of clownish anger) to lift his hand; but the sudden and affecting recollection of what he had done for the dean-of the pains, the toils, the hopes, and the fears he had experienced when solicitin

cept it, and the joyful event was celebrated without his presence. But the ardour of the bridegroom was not so vehement as to overcome every other sensation-he missed his brother. That heartfelt cheerfulness with which Henry had ever given him joy upon every happy occasi

d not so entirely removed the scruples of William as to permit him to think her a worthy companion for Lady Clementina, the daughter of a

e hoped that she was company for angels. She died within the first y

t a sudden shock, and a kind of fleetin

n, she might have been introduced to Lady Clement

o have met this poor woman for the last time, and would have descended to the fami

he poor, that, on their approach to its sheltering abode, the arrog