The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-11
III L.

Finally HazlItt seems to have plucked NJ
courage to ask his idol to marry him. She re
fused. and his despair was intense To hii
friend Patmore he wrote:
Sighted by her on whom my heart by its last nbrc
hung, whore shall turni wake with her by my side
not as a bedfeilow but as the corpse my
without heart in her bosom, cold. insensiole, OF
struggling from mo and the worm gnaws me, and the
sting Of unrequitod love- ane the canker OF hopeless
endless have lost the taste Of food BY fever
ish anxiety and favorito beverage. which used TO
refresh me whom got up has moisture in It. Oh
cold solitary, and Bepulohral breakfasts compared
with those which promised myself with her. or
which l made when she had been standing an
hour by my side. my guardian angel, my wife, my
sister my sweet friend my Eve, all, and had blest
with her seraph kisses! oh what suffer at pres
ent only shows what have enjoyed But the girl In
good girl II there Ia goodness in human nature" thank
you for those words and will fall down and worship
you you can provo them true, and would not do
much less for him that proves her demon She is
or the other that's certain: but fear the worst Do
let mo know If anything has passed Suspense il my
greatest punishment.
In compliance with Hazlitt's request, Mr.
Patmore appears to have made q personal ef-
fort In his behalf with Miss Walker. but without
success. and Hazlitt writes to him:
You have been very kind to mo In this business; but
ming to fail. To what state am reduced, and for
WHAT For fAncying little artful vixen be angel
and saint because she Affected to look like TO
hide her rash thoughts and deadly purposes. Has she
not murdered mo under the mask OF the tenderest
friendship! And why! Because have loved her with
unntterabe love, and sought to make her my wife.
You say It Is my own outrageous conduct" that has
esranRed her Nay, have been too gentle with her
ask first in candor whether tho ambiguity her
behavior with respect to me- peting and fondlinR a
together and then declaring she had love for him
beyond common regard and protesting marry,
was not enough to excite my suspicious, which the
different from the down
not calculated to allaJt ask you what your
self would have felt done H. loving her did had
heard what did time after timer Did mothe
to Of the charges (which shall repeaDs
and is such iniecacy to be with pretend
cd character that character which foil In love with
to which made ore-without supposing her to be the
greatest hypocrite In the wordI My objectionable
offence has beon that took her at her word and was
willing to believe her the precise little Purtanica per
son she set up for After exciting her wayward desires
by the fondest embraces and the kisses
had been made my welded wife yestreen" or was to
become SO tomorrow Nor that was always my feeling
with respect to herr did proceed to crafty them
or to follow up my advantage BY any action which
should declare ~ think you . common Adventurer
and willse whether you or notg' Yet any ono
but creduous fool Ike mo would have made tho or
ter of life and DEATH for had every to dSust
Appearances
Her conduct has been of piece from the beginning
In tho midst OF her closest fAeat she
has AlWays with ono two exoeptons) discAmsd the
natural inference TO DO drawn from them and made q
verbal reservation By which sho might lead In .
FOOLS paradise and mako the tool of her levty her
aVarice and her love OF intrigue long she Liked
and dismiss mo whenever It suited her. This you 500
she has done because my Intentions grew serous and
4 m Lad IL
tnge I've After marriage to this "trAdesnans
daughter who has as nice Of hoAor any eau
have and like Lady BetdS'on in Tom JonoS sh0 cuts
you Immediately In at of adherence and alarm Yet
she seemed to DO Of different mind formerly. when
struggling from In tho height our nrSt intimacy
she exclaimed: However might agree 70 my own
ruin never viii consent to bring diSRraco upon my
amiy That should have spared the traitress after
expressions like this aStoniShes when look back
upon IT, Yet II 1t wsro all TO do over again know
should act Just the same Such In her power ovor
me- loAnnet run the least risk Of offending her love
her So When look her in the face cannot doubt her
truth Wretchod being that amt
And he ends with this explosion of Jealous
rage:
isee the young witch in anotherS lap, twlninR her
serpent arms round him her eye ElancinE and her
on hre-Wy docs not the hidOous thought choke
VT why DO not 10 and md out tho truth oncei
inc moonlight streams the silver waters the bark
ID IN 'Ae Day That might watt her almost with
"tSn me mountain breeze signs out her name; old
No., nv, ~. u OF tears murmurS back my woes
DOCS moi my heArt yeArn to be with her and shall not
ioHo" ns oiddngf No. must wait till am free; and
.hen VIII take my freedom. glad prize and lay 1t at
her tee and tell her proud love of her that would
not brook rival in her dIhonor and that would have
her all or none and gain her or lose myself forsysr
a. A. Al, All,
n. the tinio 'nis was written the divorce.
1noueh agreed upon had not been formally
granted which explains why Hazlitt said, II
must walt till l am iree" DurinR.the DELAY he
received from Mr. Patmora onnth.r Iat,.r oiv
Ing him some very oood .a,Ia~
NN ~u'''o'
They All OF then. every soul frsbtsn.d al Won.
they have seen enough of you TO make them so; and
they have doubtless heard ten times more than they