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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
and attachment , while an air of honesty diffused itself throughout every line , he , at last , thinks whether the question may not admit of a rational entertainment . With this view he examined most particularly the nature of the vouchers which O'Neil had submitted , and finding their contents satisfactory , and bearing the signature besides of persons with whose parents he had himself been intimate in early life , he summoned to his presence his beloved and only childwith a view thatif bher sanctionedhe should ive the
appli-, , y , g cant a legitimate trial . Eloise had scarcely appeared when he playfully chatechised her as to " who were her lovers ?" " I am not aware that I have any , papa , " was the reply . " Look at this , and confess if it has had your approbation ?" It was in vain that Eloise protested her ignorance as well of the letter as of the author . Her countenance , while she read it , betrayed the symptoms of her consciousness ; and the scene in the gardendespite her efforts to the
, contrary , broke out in all the fulness of maiden innocence , as she explained the interview of the day before ; and added , " my dear papa , encouraged , perhaps , by my-natural unreserve , he ventured upon some compliments , which , irrelevant though they may have been , and obtrusive as I have ever before considered the like , yet , as uttered hy him , I acknowledge , they sounded
otherwise . " A tear accompanied the final sentence of this naive disclosure ; overcome by which , no less than by her frank ingenuousness , the venerable exile addressed his daughter in the following terms . " In the veins of him who has indited that epistle , flows the current of vitality kindred to that whence you have derived yours . The same hall received my fathers and the ancestors of O'Neil carousing together in national festivity ; and though destiny hath long severed me from the earth
where their bones recline , yet have I never ceased to cherish an ambitious hope , that I should at some day , however distant , myself behold her shores —nor intermitted my supplications to the citadel of heaven , for the abridgment of the penalty which retards her own as well as her sons' regeneration . Of the latter branch of this prayer I foresee with pleasure the gracious evidences of accomplishment ; but as to the former , the almost exhausted flame of my lamp precludes the possibility of its literal fulfilment . " Time wasEloisewhen leaped with rapture on hearing the name
, , you of Ireland expressed . I remember the streams which moistened your glowing cheeks on reciting to you the miseries of that ill-starred nation ; and I cannot forget the vow which you once childishly registered on the fly-leaf of your memoranda , viz ., that you would never unite yourself in marriage to a husband but who could prove connexion with the high blood of Irin .
" In full reliance upon these qualities , I now appoint you the sole arbiter of this romance . Your wish is my law , your happiness my ultimatum . ' ' AVon by this display , instead of having her enthusiasm more excited towards the object in whom , it was plain , she felt interested , she was , on the contrary , impelled to disclaim him at once , intimating , with a sob , that " she had been hitherto happy under the roof of her infancy ; and that she was not at all anxious to exchange a certain for an uncertain condition . " The father , however , having discovered , as he imagined , the inclinations
of his child , and conceiving them averse , or at least indifferent , to the proposal , dispatched an answer to O'Neil , intimating to him his " sense of the high honour which he had intended his firmly , but whicli , however , he must reluctantly decline , not having had the advantage of any preceding acquaintance witli the individual who would impose upon him such a favour ; and his advanced age denying him the facilities of that tiresome etiquette ivhich the rules of society had made customary . "— 'The same envelope inclosed his credentials also . Feeling the prosecution of his canvas thus abortivelv cut short , and the
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
and attachment , while an air of honesty diffused itself throughout every line , he , at last , thinks whether the question may not admit of a rational entertainment . With this view he examined most particularly the nature of the vouchers which O'Neil had submitted , and finding their contents satisfactory , and bearing the signature besides of persons with whose parents he had himself been intimate in early life , he summoned to his presence his beloved and only childwith a view thatif bher sanctionedhe should ive the
appli-, , y , g cant a legitimate trial . Eloise had scarcely appeared when he playfully chatechised her as to " who were her lovers ?" " I am not aware that I have any , papa , " was the reply . " Look at this , and confess if it has had your approbation ?" It was in vain that Eloise protested her ignorance as well of the letter as of the author . Her countenance , while she read it , betrayed the symptoms of her consciousness ; and the scene in the gardendespite her efforts to the
, contrary , broke out in all the fulness of maiden innocence , as she explained the interview of the day before ; and added , " my dear papa , encouraged , perhaps , by my-natural unreserve , he ventured upon some compliments , which , irrelevant though they may have been , and obtrusive as I have ever before considered the like , yet , as uttered hy him , I acknowledge , they sounded
otherwise . " A tear accompanied the final sentence of this naive disclosure ; overcome by which , no less than by her frank ingenuousness , the venerable exile addressed his daughter in the following terms . " In the veins of him who has indited that epistle , flows the current of vitality kindred to that whence you have derived yours . The same hall received my fathers and the ancestors of O'Neil carousing together in national festivity ; and though destiny hath long severed me from the earth
where their bones recline , yet have I never ceased to cherish an ambitious hope , that I should at some day , however distant , myself behold her shores —nor intermitted my supplications to the citadel of heaven , for the abridgment of the penalty which retards her own as well as her sons' regeneration . Of the latter branch of this prayer I foresee with pleasure the gracious evidences of accomplishment ; but as to the former , the almost exhausted flame of my lamp precludes the possibility of its literal fulfilment . " Time wasEloisewhen leaped with rapture on hearing the name
, , you of Ireland expressed . I remember the streams which moistened your glowing cheeks on reciting to you the miseries of that ill-starred nation ; and I cannot forget the vow which you once childishly registered on the fly-leaf of your memoranda , viz ., that you would never unite yourself in marriage to a husband but who could prove connexion with the high blood of Irin .
" In full reliance upon these qualities , I now appoint you the sole arbiter of this romance . Your wish is my law , your happiness my ultimatum . ' ' AVon by this display , instead of having her enthusiasm more excited towards the object in whom , it was plain , she felt interested , she was , on the contrary , impelled to disclaim him at once , intimating , with a sob , that " she had been hitherto happy under the roof of her infancy ; and that she was not at all anxious to exchange a certain for an uncertain condition . " The father , however , having discovered , as he imagined , the inclinations
of his child , and conceiving them averse , or at least indifferent , to the proposal , dispatched an answer to O'Neil , intimating to him his " sense of the high honour which he had intended his firmly , but whicli , however , he must reluctantly decline , not having had the advantage of any preceding acquaintance witli the individual who would impose upon him such a favour ; and his advanced age denying him the facilities of that tiresome etiquette ivhich the rules of society had made customary . "— 'The same envelope inclosed his credentials also . Feeling the prosecution of his canvas thus abortivelv cut short , and the