Nature and Art

ntenance frequently changed, and once or twice the tears s

ill be a parent to him." He was rushing towar

uld be witnesses to your meeting with your brother and your nephew in the sta

e my brother! The man is merely a person from

o the man, and orders given that th

manner it would most redound to her honour to receive him; for her vanity taught her to beli

onster his beggarly cousin would appear; and was contemplating how

ation than an impatient des

on of his brother Henry,

is cousin, he was something taller: and though a strong family resemblance appeared between the two youths, he was handsomer than William; and from a simplicity spread over his countenance, a

hought of him," but expressing almost as plainly as in direct words, "what he thought of them." For all alarm in respect to his safety and reception seemed now wholly forgotten, in the curiosity which the

the first affectionate gaze, he ran to him, took him in his arms, sat down, drew him to him, hel

the dean round the neck,

orehead-indeed you would be almost the same as he, if it wer

n (unless caught in bed) without an enormous wig. With this young Henry was enormously struck; having never seen so

laying his hand gently on the rev

id young Henry, "and so does t

ou will see many persons with such things

u wear suc

inferior people: they are worn to

ass nails, wire, buttons, and entrails of be

ina, and told him, "She was his aunt, to wh

s a person of importance too; she has, very near

ur, or with amiable tenderness. While she was hesitating between both, she felt a kind of jealous apprehens

igher sense of the happiness we enjoy in our own. What an instru

t so elegant in his manners as his cousin. Had William been bred

nd a sarcastic smile, "I assure you several of my tutors have to

ady self-complacency, he delivered this speech, and no soon

did not know there were such little men in thi

the dean; "a boy not

er, and William gravely s

then stroked his cousin's chin. "No, n

he is a boy of your own age; you and

said young Henry. "

, "polite children do not call t

mes forget to love them

where the father was, whether he were coming to live with them, wanted anything of them, and every circumstance in which her vanity was intereste