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    an& for sucl * a prf ^ pec ^ , impossible ! She had nQ ftfgfjment left The gwy , morning light was making its way through ^ e * gutters ; there was much to be done ^ and Mrs , Feufpn felt rt * yas time to bring matters to a close . * Well , Percy , I have nothing

    more to urge . My hopes are gone , my prospects for your happiness ruined ; little did I dream that this fatal acquaintance would have the effect of destroying your devotion to her whQ t } as made ycru her one object through life ! ' c It is not true ; I am ready this instant to resign her . I have given no promise ; nay , she may , she will , ' most likely love another ; ' and he buried his

    face in his hands . She knows not what I suffer ; she shall never know ,, though my heart may break with its agony . Do with me what you will ; go with me where you will ; all that I ask in return is , that the name of Flora Brandon never again passes your lips ! ' ' My noble Percy 1 my dear , dear son ! ' But little enthusiasm was there to meet her own . Percy was exhausted . ' And npw let me entreat you to go to rest . ' € Rest ! ' echoed Percy ' s heart in . derision ; but he kissed his mother , as had been his wont from childhood , and retired to his chamber . Mrs .

    Fenton immediately proceeded to make the necessary arrangements for their departure ; the whole house were in requisition , with strict injunction to proceed quietly in their movements . The following morniug , mother and son were on their way ; Percy asl ^ ed not , Percy cared not , whither .

    In a , few weeks from that time Percy Fenton was , to all appearance , dying . The effort to overcome his feelings , the mixture of remorseful doubt that would sometimes mingle itself with them , the absence of all hope , the deprivation of sympathy * a growing discernment or his mother s motives , the struggle between old affection and newly-awakening distrust , without the needful energy to redee m himself from its consequences , had reduced him to a state of weakness and depression that seemed to be making rapid

    approaches to total decline . For some time they had journeyed from place to place , in the hope that quick and repeated change might wean him from this daugerous dotage on the past ; but Percy ' s strength would hold out no longer , and Mrs . Fenton fixed her residence on the coast , where she hoped the sea breeies and gop 4 medical advice would restore him . Blind mother ! his had been no selfish passion ; not the sensual , senseless worship of a , pair of lustrous eyes , a perfect set of features , or a faultless form :

    the love whose light plays upon the surface of the eye , but flashes UQt within the deep recesses of the heart and brain . He had been np ranger from one to another , offering up to gods many aad strange the devotion meant only for the true religion qf the heart ; nay , daring to take , the name of the true Divinity in vptu , hy appropriating it as a reureaeutctfave for feelings polluted t > y tkftir promiwuputtnegfeu a # d ue ^ fMted by tfrgir aelfishnes * . With POPY fave bad been the e ^ ajwiueiwut of o ^ e obj ect w itbia his

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/23/