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Article THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
associations of his bewilderment now wearisome and debilitating , O'Neil makes a vigorous effort for his spiritual emancipation , and tears himself off , ¦ in all haste , from Antwerp and its enchantments . Then the bustle of locomotion and the divcrtisements of novelty , soon reconciled him to a doom which he judged impossible to countermand . Not so Eloise : debarred , by the conditions of her sex , from those resources of diversion which the " lords of the creation " monopolise , her sensitive and gentle spirit languished in private at the result of that
declaration ivhich her delicacy , not her heart , had extorted from her . The noble mien , the eloquent address , the fervent yet modest and respectful importunity of the stranger—but , above all , the generous self-devotion with which he strove to combat his fate and gain access to her acceptance without the technicalities of an introduction , recurred , ever aud anon , to her repentant thoughts , and spread a gloom over a visage ivhich had been ever before lighted with joy . Superstition , too , which had previously , with reverence , stood aloof from her strength of mind , finds the outposts to her reason now
more easily stormed , and gives the whole tenor of her deportment a kind of melancholy tinge . Under the operation of this despondence her health pined away , and then it was that the mother , who from a lingering malady had long absented herself from the light of day , and confined herself strictly to the privacy of her chamber , observing the lamentable defalcation in her daughter ' s wonted spirits , and missing that hilarity with which she used to rattle into her room and lull her bher flippancy into an insensibility of her sufferingsbegan at
y , last to suspect that love had been at his work , and that the moral deadness of her house was solely attributable to his inexorable domination . Yet , had Eloise " Never told her love , But let concealment , like u worm i' the bud , Prey on her damask cheek . "
A conference with the father on the subject of their child ' s alteration , soon satisfied the invalid as to the decay ivhich she had observed ; and having learned , by inquiry , ' that the object of this estrangement , though he had withdrawn himself from their city , and without prospect of returning , had yet left an address at his hotel whereby a letter might reach him , she hastened to remedy the blythe of this tragedy , and , to this end , had recourse to a piece of finesse . The adroitness of a woman is known to a proverb .
True to this remark , in ascertaining the permanency of O'Neil ' s regards , the mother , without any compromise of the daughter's sensibility , contrived to intimate to hiin at the same time , " that no aversion to his acquaintance had existed on the part of the family , but that their diffidence arose from an apprehension of a mistake on his part as to the identity ofthe young lady . " Nor was this the only item in whicli the outline of the letter fell short of truth ; for , notwithstanding that several months had now elapsed since the interruption of the negociationshe dated her present letter as if written on
, the day subsequent to her husband ' s refusal ! Yet , what will not a mother do to forward the virtuous and rooted attachment of a daughter . The flame , however , in O'Neil , was only suppressed , not extinguished . It smouldered still within the recesses of his unconscious breast ; and now , that a gleam of success opened a vista to restoration , it broke forth in all the vivid and resistless impetuosity of an absolute volcano . This was his ansivpr .
" MADAM —In reply to the favour which I have just had the honour of receiving , and which , though written at the period of my departure from Antwerp , it was not my good fortune to be blessed with before this day , I must respectfully beg leave to say that there bas been no ' mistake . ' " The young lady who had so deeply interested my affections , 1 have but once laid eyes on , a year and five months ago , in front of her father's house , on a May morning , while admiring the flowers that decorated the shrubbery , and which , in truth , yielded in loveliness only to herself .
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
associations of his bewilderment now wearisome and debilitating , O'Neil makes a vigorous effort for his spiritual emancipation , and tears himself off , ¦ in all haste , from Antwerp and its enchantments . Then the bustle of locomotion and the divcrtisements of novelty , soon reconciled him to a doom which he judged impossible to countermand . Not so Eloise : debarred , by the conditions of her sex , from those resources of diversion which the " lords of the creation " monopolise , her sensitive and gentle spirit languished in private at the result of that
declaration ivhich her delicacy , not her heart , had extorted from her . The noble mien , the eloquent address , the fervent yet modest and respectful importunity of the stranger—but , above all , the generous self-devotion with which he strove to combat his fate and gain access to her acceptance without the technicalities of an introduction , recurred , ever aud anon , to her repentant thoughts , and spread a gloom over a visage ivhich had been ever before lighted with joy . Superstition , too , which had previously , with reverence , stood aloof from her strength of mind , finds the outposts to her reason now
more easily stormed , and gives the whole tenor of her deportment a kind of melancholy tinge . Under the operation of this despondence her health pined away , and then it was that the mother , who from a lingering malady had long absented herself from the light of day , and confined herself strictly to the privacy of her chamber , observing the lamentable defalcation in her daughter ' s wonted spirits , and missing that hilarity with which she used to rattle into her room and lull her bher flippancy into an insensibility of her sufferingsbegan at
y , last to suspect that love had been at his work , and that the moral deadness of her house was solely attributable to his inexorable domination . Yet , had Eloise " Never told her love , But let concealment , like u worm i' the bud , Prey on her damask cheek . "
A conference with the father on the subject of their child ' s alteration , soon satisfied the invalid as to the decay ivhich she had observed ; and having learned , by inquiry , ' that the object of this estrangement , though he had withdrawn himself from their city , and without prospect of returning , had yet left an address at his hotel whereby a letter might reach him , she hastened to remedy the blythe of this tragedy , and , to this end , had recourse to a piece of finesse . The adroitness of a woman is known to a proverb .
True to this remark , in ascertaining the permanency of O'Neil ' s regards , the mother , without any compromise of the daughter's sensibility , contrived to intimate to hiin at the same time , " that no aversion to his acquaintance had existed on the part of the family , but that their diffidence arose from an apprehension of a mistake on his part as to the identity ofthe young lady . " Nor was this the only item in whicli the outline of the letter fell short of truth ; for , notwithstanding that several months had now elapsed since the interruption of the negociationshe dated her present letter as if written on
, the day subsequent to her husband ' s refusal ! Yet , what will not a mother do to forward the virtuous and rooted attachment of a daughter . The flame , however , in O'Neil , was only suppressed , not extinguished . It smouldered still within the recesses of his unconscious breast ; and now , that a gleam of success opened a vista to restoration , it broke forth in all the vivid and resistless impetuosity of an absolute volcano . This was his ansivpr .
" MADAM —In reply to the favour which I have just had the honour of receiving , and which , though written at the period of my departure from Antwerp , it was not my good fortune to be blessed with before this day , I must respectfully beg leave to say that there bas been no ' mistake . ' " The young lady who had so deeply interested my affections , 1 have but once laid eyes on , a year and five months ago , in front of her father's house , on a May morning , while admiring the flowers that decorated the shrubbery , and which , in truth , yielded in loveliness only to herself .