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The History Of Madame And Monsieur C-.
pressed her little boy to her bosom , and instantly dispatched Victoire to make known how thankfully she accepted this blessed offer . Early the next morning the necessary materials were purchased , and Madame C , with eager alacrity , began her task . While she contemplated the first elegant performance , which advanced rapidly beneath her creating hand , tears of soothing pleasure , tears which it was luxury to shedgushed from her eyes . To have the power of
, applying those accomplishments , which she had only cultivated as the amusement of a solitary hour , to the dear , the precious purpose of sustaining her child , filled her mind with the sweetest sensations cf maternal tenderness—it was delight , elevated by the noble consciousness of duty—it was an effort of virtue , which , while it shielded the object ; of her fond solicitude from suffering , was interwoven with an
immediate recompense in the southing effect it produced en her own mind . Since , amidst continual occupation , that gloomy despondency , which , in stillness and solitude brooded over its own turbulent wretchedness , was softened into milder sorrow , and engrossed by the unceasing care of providing for her child , the image of its father , which used to call forth the wild agonies of disappointed passion , but now awakened a tender melancholy , which resignation tempered .
The only moments which Madame C gave to leisure , and the indulgence of her feelings , were those of twilight , when , after the unremitting labours of the long summer day , she usual !} ' left her little boy to the care of Victoire , and walking out alone amidst those scenes of solemn grandeur , indulged that mournful musing , when the mind wanders over its vanished pleasures , and tears , which ' flow without controul , embalm the past ! In one of those solitary walks , seated on the fragment of a rock ,
near the torrent-stream , the hoarse noise of whose melancholy waters were congenial to her meditations , the chain of pensive thought was suddenly broken by the tread of an approaching footstep . She cast up her eyes , and beheld Mons . C , who , pale , and trembling with emotion , threw himself at her feet , clasped her knees in unutterable agony , aud at length told her , in broken accents , that he came not to solicit her forgivenessbut to die in her —that
, presence feeling he had but a short time to live , he had ventured to behold her once more ; not to attempt any extenuation of his guilt , or to declare how much he abhorred himself for the past , but merely to explain the appearance of that barbarous neglect , in which she had been left at Bellinzone ; Mons . C , then , after execrating the delusion hy which he had
been so fatally misled , related , that having taken an " excursion into Germany , at the period when her letter arrived , he had only received it two months after it was dated . Rouzed as from an hideous dream , seized with the pangs of remorse at his own conduct , and feeling every sentiment of renewed tenderness awakened in his heart by 'he image of her sufferings , he instantly declaied to Madame ¦ iis resolution to hasten to Bellinzone . No intelligence , he perceived , could be more agreeable to that lady ; and , tiot long after , ' he discovered the reason , by hearing that she was gone to Vienna with s
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The History Of Madame And Monsieur C-.
pressed her little boy to her bosom , and instantly dispatched Victoire to make known how thankfully she accepted this blessed offer . Early the next morning the necessary materials were purchased , and Madame C , with eager alacrity , began her task . While she contemplated the first elegant performance , which advanced rapidly beneath her creating hand , tears of soothing pleasure , tears which it was luxury to shedgushed from her eyes . To have the power of
, applying those accomplishments , which she had only cultivated as the amusement of a solitary hour , to the dear , the precious purpose of sustaining her child , filled her mind with the sweetest sensations cf maternal tenderness—it was delight , elevated by the noble consciousness of duty—it was an effort of virtue , which , while it shielded the object ; of her fond solicitude from suffering , was interwoven with an
immediate recompense in the southing effect it produced en her own mind . Since , amidst continual occupation , that gloomy despondency , which , in stillness and solitude brooded over its own turbulent wretchedness , was softened into milder sorrow , and engrossed by the unceasing care of providing for her child , the image of its father , which used to call forth the wild agonies of disappointed passion , but now awakened a tender melancholy , which resignation tempered .
The only moments which Madame C gave to leisure , and the indulgence of her feelings , were those of twilight , when , after the unremitting labours of the long summer day , she usual !} ' left her little boy to the care of Victoire , and walking out alone amidst those scenes of solemn grandeur , indulged that mournful musing , when the mind wanders over its vanished pleasures , and tears , which ' flow without controul , embalm the past ! In one of those solitary walks , seated on the fragment of a rock ,
near the torrent-stream , the hoarse noise of whose melancholy waters were congenial to her meditations , the chain of pensive thought was suddenly broken by the tread of an approaching footstep . She cast up her eyes , and beheld Mons . C , who , pale , and trembling with emotion , threw himself at her feet , clasped her knees in unutterable agony , aud at length told her , in broken accents , that he came not to solicit her forgivenessbut to die in her —that
, presence feeling he had but a short time to live , he had ventured to behold her once more ; not to attempt any extenuation of his guilt , or to declare how much he abhorred himself for the past , but merely to explain the appearance of that barbarous neglect , in which she had been left at Bellinzone ; Mons . C , then , after execrating the delusion hy which he had
been so fatally misled , related , that having taken an " excursion into Germany , at the period when her letter arrived , he had only received it two months after it was dated . Rouzed as from an hideous dream , seized with the pangs of remorse at his own conduct , and feeling every sentiment of renewed tenderness awakened in his heart by 'he image of her sufferings , he instantly declaied to Madame ¦ iis resolution to hasten to Bellinzone . No intelligence , he perceived , could be more agreeable to that lady ; and , tiot long after , ' he discovered the reason , by hearing that she was gone to Vienna with s