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tying up the flowers. She had a sinpularlv
soft and quiet manner OF moving, such as
indicated a quiet and harmonious life, and
gave her more the air Of lady than mos,
ladies' that have seen, ] went up to speak
TO her. and asked where | was. and wha,
would be my shortest way back, when |
saw her face moro distinctly, her mild fea-
lures, and c'enr blue eyes. She answered
me in a low sweet voice, gravely but pleas
antly. when an old man came out of the
house, whom | found to be her father, and
whom | remembered 10 have seen two or
three times at my employers, the suuire's.
where he hay come on justice business as
an oversccr of The poor. recollected
that his name was Wilson, and on speaking
to him and saying where | lived, he asked
me IN. The daughter had gone before,
and | willingly agreed. The family and
the house have alike an appearance Of
simplicity and peace at once strange and
delightful to me. When I think of the
restless oretensions and the discomfort of
those ! live among, the contrast becomes
very STRIKING l spont a quarter of an
hour in the house, and when | was return
ing through the woods and fields the figure
of Elizabeth seemed always fitting before
me, yet with her face turned towards mine,
and with her bright and gentle eyes and
calm smile looking at me from between the
trees and above the hedge rows. | could
not walk steadily, but jumped and ran. and
every now ard then stood still. the more
Clearly to recall her image. ], who seldom
am able to pray, caught myself exclaiming,
30 God hast thou al last sent me a
being whom ] may love, aad who may enc
day love me 7"
I have now seen Elizabeth many times.
Her whole life and culture have had but
the two elements. the domestic and the
Biblical. Yet TO how complete and melo-
dlous, nay, sometimes how high and lyrical.
a being has she attained !! She knows, in.
deed, little but she has the most open,
the freshest, and the truest sense for what
ever is natural end worthy. While with
her, and thinking no longer of speculations
or OF myself, | feel as if | had thrown off a
stiff and heavy armour which | had worn
for years. and been clad Of a sudden in soft
and lucid silken 'obes. Oh, how divine is
the b'essednees Of love it leaves me no
fears and regrets. | feel that life is indeed
a capacity for JOY, and is nothing else. All
besides is but the pain and Struggle thro'
which that capacity is unfolded. She,
without designing 1t, has opened my heart
to see and feel goodness and beauty in
every thing around me. Nay, strangest OF
all, when with her | read the Bible, and
when see how its morality and devotion
and multudinous imagery have passed into
and become portions Of her heart, | seem
to perceive that the Deity may be Seheld
immnoia'olN and acknowledged, ms we dis
Germ and own what Is excellent in humau
being, and should feel it a villany to osi
how we can prove such and such a pure
and heroic man not to be a mere cheat ant
Guack. Much, indeed, is still dark but
can now conceive it to be transltory ant
hopeful darkness. for what once was dark.
est Of all, namely, my own being aud afftc
tons. are now bright and benignant.
now know that TO believe is nobler than tc
thcorise, and 10 act more profitable than &c
murmur. dare not complain ofthe seem
ingly ineXplicable contradictions of Exis,
%tcnce, while | am not guiding my own il
the path which evidently opens before me
! cannot, indeed, see its termination, but
do see the portion nearest to me, which
must. at all events, oe first travelled an,
as | do not see the end, | know not bu
, that it may issue in the solution Of all m,
difficulties. There is q road OF action guld
ing me know not precisely whittier an,
, there mus, he somewhere, though | know
J not precisely where, an outlet from tn,
labyrinth of speculation. One, therefore
! Of tho-n a N tnrn ant IN ha thn eo1ntt,n n
2 the other. Nay, ifa Life be not a hope
, less, painless chaos, | dare affirm that s, i
, must be-. And that such and so darkIy be
{ wrldered is not our mortal state, my hopes
my sympathies, my e~xulting Joy. my sens,
j of federation, in the love Of Elizabeth. arr
d to me abundant proof. TIE God of th,
. Bible and the God of the Universe. ] nov
s divine afar off, may be known as one. Blu
am sure that to know Him at all, eycep
@ bv guess, | must resolve that lie snail prac
d ticaIly be my God.
r CHAPTER VII.
5 The effect of these papers on Musgrave'
, mind was very strong. He had hurdl
ever read any hing not in conformity wit.
b. his own habits of mind and opinions
C From all books beyond his @favorlte circle
CDJSlsllnE '" suEu WINS us A-INtIIVIs
$ Jeremy Taylor. Herbert, and Fenelon. h
S turned away with Indifference or dislike
y His was a sort Of urchanging moonshin
h of the mind. Now he felt as if throw
IS into a dungeon, with q din lamp burnin,
on one side, and a single sharp ray OF sun
!. light piercing on the other. Much tina
v appeared in Henry's Papers he could not a
y all enter into. But he saw enough TO IN
derstand that his own previous world wa
d a smaller one than he had imagined
Without losing his faith in the great truth
d which he had never for an instant of hi
l.. life permitted himself to doubt, he now fel
e the sphere of his conceptions suddenly an
g painfully enlarged, and an unexpected i'm
ID p%ortance given to thoughts which ha
II hardly before suggested themselves to hin
He had not read Walslngham's Poems
/, aud the one which he had now lighted o