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    110 SXJCGESS AND FJtlliXJRE.

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    Chapter I. Two Men Sat Together In A Sin...

    eep Wyndhain tion to the meanwhile rule , _thoiig pursued h Ms Ms soft studious ; manners and disguised obscure and career it . .

    Known to few , seeking none , Ms life had one occupation one culiar aim— -a stud steadfast y . Tne devotion remarkable to the feature science of which Ms character _rh . e made was Ms pe its

    -Where singleness it is of united purpose with . Genius genius it itself crowns is a it less with dreamer rare rare g and ift he than enduring did this not . Arthur would laugh at Mm as a ;

    success . underst wont and to this contrast patient and concentration to point out the and different loffcy self accep -control tation . their He

    he works was was had free met from with mental , not in vanity a conceited —but as manner a rebuke — of for time , to to Wyndhain do him told justice , for ,

    was that what poring the he golden ( Arthur over opportunitie ) some considered futile s historical a he dreamy was allowing research waste , to would slip . at b He y , last while sli Mm g he ht

    Mm as a miserable as much as laggard he neglected in the them race which , and that he himself he would intended be outstri however to pped run . His efforts to rouse his friend , as he termed it , were , ,

    and all in known vain . by "W the yndham public was , had firm spoken . After to one all in , heart Ms its poem . latent Dora so fire little had in read read its it , she understood it ; there was something She , read it

    till calm she and learnt _nolble it strength by heart , . that She was would congenial discuss to it her with . Arthur , and the

    obli cousins ge him were to walking confess its together strange , they recondite met beauty Wyndham . One . He day was Arthur as

    immediately introduced to Dora , with a jesting allusion from at her " Bettina " worship for the author introduced of " ** * to * . " W Nugent yndham

    This walked occurred home onl with y a them few weeks , and previous was to Arthur ' s departure Mrs . , but . idl

    the With acquaintance Wyndham had it progressed was love at rap first y si . ght . There was a mingled sweetness and sense in Dora ' s face which enchanted Mm , and which diand

    realised the Mtherto unfound ideal of his heart , —a gnity a gentleness diffidence which itself not to her only mother promised to those repose who but loved support her . , and Dora to was all

    whom implacable she loye . Her d ; but blue to eyes baseness would , , to flash falsehood , and , to her deceit tongue , she ( that was

    woman ' s weapon -that ) would her usual utter manner a few words was so of sweet condemnation . Wyndham , the . more severe

    was woman one . of That those smoothness men who do which not like veneers the temperament the surface of , a and slave hides in a

    its' texture , was his abhorrence . Dora , on her side , appreciated the simplicity and , strength of Ms iest character moments . She and felt most a reliance charming on

    moods Mm , that , had -Arthur never , insp in ired Ms . happ To a person of penetration , insincerity of character is as discordant and as easily detected as a false note in miht deceive

    he music always to one deceived who possesses himself , a but good one ear . or . Arthur two persons g judged him many at ,

    110 Sxjcgess And Fjtllixjre.

    110 SXJCGESS AND _FJtlliXJRE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/38/