The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1841-01-13


changed, and from the active and even gay man
of enterprise seemed to have assumed anoIhel
temperament He had no children to provide
for, no !iIle pralller to cheer him. aud gladden.
his coming home the future with him, man
rs he was, vas but dreary blank his very
hopes were blished in the hud-and all his
objects, all Lis duty now on earth, was to du
good TO those who stood in need Of his assist.
anee orw whom rlmnce threw in his w.y.
Such were the couple With whom Muua,
lived. Time glijsd BY. aud in the calm OF sucf
retirement he at length began TO experienc,
that peace OF mind which the world canno
give" The Kindness Of his manners. the one,
briiantpowers of a highly cultivated mind--hi'
resignation ander mislorInnes. which of all 9th
ers are perhaps the greatest for mans PROUD
nature to bear; his Unaffected picty. and ia,
genuine charity which peuaded his very
though endeacsd him to his companions
and kni, this little circle together BY bond OF
kindred feeling. which was not merely felt but
acknowledged by all.
Three years murray lived thus, when au in
cideni as fearful as unexpected once more a.
wakened him TO the sorrows Of lie.
Henry Morand had returned to England a.
bou, the same time ~ Maria. The compan-
ion Of her guilty 1isht was never exactly asccr
tanned; by some it was considered to have been
Sir WynJham Fletcher, and by others (amoug
whom were her husband and his rcldtives) it
was supposed to have been Morland.
With his usual wayward character he had
/ fingered abroad Tor two years he had travelled
over most of the Southern couullcs Of Europe
and kept up but liItle correspondence with hi,
native land. Yet he had learned that Lucy
Murray WAS still unmarried, and since her sis.
ter.in-law's indiscrction, that she had resided
in comparative secusion with her aunt, AT
some distance from London. Morland beside,
chagrin had almost felt indignant at the strange
GOODNESS manifested towards him by one whom
he had met in all the openhearied sincerity o
friendship. TO say nothing OF affection he was
angry with Lucy. aud although mortified u,
her conduct, was slow to attribute 1t TO caprice
alone. llo still deemed some misunderstood
ing, ss.s6-urposed sI,ghi, -,s,-v,- -,.-.--.-
like all other men was more disposed to bcIicy
tha, his failure To obtain the partial smile q
beauty. was owing rather TO his want of zoo,
fortune, Il:an want of merit.
And there was something tho in Lney's IN
qualified dislike to his society, which seemed
TO betray anger, hatc. dignalion-slrongrr e.
motions than mere disregard; and he was con
n hn l.I,. nj
which made him di>pIoasing in her eyes.
But then Murland was unconscious Of having
done aught to give her offence he was there.
fore, as has been already sril, angry, as well as
chagrlncd, at her conduct. Absrncc and the
interval OF time respects actions more liah per.
sons-that is 10 say, the impression OF the
former often increases while that OF the latter
fades away. We are more apt then TO hiok
kindly OF those who loved us than OF those
whom We have loved in vaiii---,hr actions
OF those TO whose real character affection might
have once rendered US blind, can nov be sub
mi,lcd to = scrutiny which the heau would then
have rcbeiled al; the film falls from our eyes
we can hold scIf.communion, aul even admit
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