Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-01-08

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come TO that morning concert Simply
to enjoy music in which no delighted;
yet 10 absorbed did he become in
some allensro'slns thoughts that the
sweet sounds which he had sought to
hear, fell upon his soul only from
time 10 time, as chimes that harmon
ised with his reflections, Whatever they
might be, and were only remembered
afterwards by the power ofassociation
which linked some peculiar cadence
with n thought, dream, memory {;
or with moment where his attention
had been reused by some expression Of
pleasure or admiration in the sweetest
voice he had ever heard-'he voice OF
Helen Travern lie was not what
boarding school girls and youths in
their teens call young, for he must
havO reached five or six ana thirty;
and, according to such h'gh authority,
he had passed the age OF romance ant
the capability Of a sudden love; ana
yet in those two hours he drank deep.
ly Of the draught as ever d'd mor'a'
man. A strange and awful 1outh
had checked and driven oacK 'ne 'ae
OF emotions which belonged 10 ''s
epoch only that it might swell now
with the concentrated might OF q
loftier sentiment, a chastened tender
ness and restrained passion. He
would-ere half that time had expired
have perilled life to have touched
her ungloved hand, or to have caressed
the LIGHT ringlet which Aoated from
time to time beyond her bonnet!
It seemed, too, that fortune was to
favor him, for friends came up, and
addressed Mrs. Cunningham by name;
mutual iotroductions elicted that Of
Helen, He had but to follow them
to their door and now he knew who
she was, and where she lived. This
he did with wonderful calmness. Peo.
n1o alw.vs are calm on really great
occasions except. indeed, people who
ava tbemae,ves too small ever to
,,o,,. ~ rnder.tand them.
wi, ,ho r;omv of soul escape
throuob the entanplipp meshes which
Fots weaves for mankind, into the
outsr vo;d ot mere animal existence {;
chan oro tho s+rono of heart and
ou;oL y, sorse ubo ,r. retained to olay
,,reo+ marta in the struoele of life and
tho nor of tho ro.s;on, And vet and
vet. oh mystery Of humanity! I! who
Tho, hos s,ffsred deenlv. has not felt
thot !, tbo deenest deptbs of anguish
,horo 10 . nu,so which yibrates not
with pain ! Feebly, and rather as the
frat faint nrom;se Of a,future ioy, than
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