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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
gallantry of Irishmen , and led me to identify you with some scion of that celebrated people—and , now , good bye . " So saying , she darted towards the vestibule of the mansion , having first made a gentle courtesy , at parting , to the stranger . For a moment O'Neil stood petrified and chained to his position , not knowing what to do , until , at length , feeling the delicacy of the situation in which he was placed , and the still greater delicacy of that in which he
had well nigh placed the young lady , he determined to render the only atonement that was now in his power , —and that was to disappear at once . Every feebng was satisfied , so far as regarded her forgiveness : his national sensibilities were also appeased ; the only thing , therefore , that now remained was to follow up , by good management , what accident had so much facilitated , and win the heart of the fair one or perish in the design . ¦ To this end two modes of introduction vied with each other for preference within his mind . One was by subordinate instrumentality ; the other an
ingenuous presentation of himself , in propria persona , to explain particulars in the absence of the usual preliminaries . We need not hesitate as to which course he took . His generous disposition disdaining every thing ignoble , adopted instinctively the straight forward alternative . One very necessary point , however , must first be established—the name of the individual—whether also she was daughter to the proprietor of the habitation into which she had entered ; with various other items of minuteness requisite in such an enterprise .
A reference to the inmates of the neighbouring lodge informed him on those several points ; and then , in the dizziness of doubt and of hope , and with a brain . concocting a thousand chimerical specidations , he found himself returned to his long-forgotten meal , but at an hour more seasonable for dinner than for breakfast .
After a hasty repast he threw himself lollingly upon his couch , and in the calmness of the moment began seriously to consider whether he might not yet succeed in ejecting the little restless god who had usurped such absolute dominion over his whole manhood . He called to his aid the occupations . of his diversified calling—bethought himself of the missions which he had to execute—the thousand correspondences to which he had to attend —and the imperative urgencies of his limited furlough . Then he would wander back to the exemption from cares and incumbrances with which he
had hitherto transported himself from climate to climate , and contrast with it in fancy the weariness of the exchange , if obliged to surrender all this independence and single security for the onerous responsibility of a wedded state . But in vain—the loneliness of celibacy he could not now separate from the nausea of disgust ; while the punctuality of trade appeared to him only as the trammels of servitude . As a dernier resort , and when all the other devices of his invention , to a bosom agitated by the throes of passion had failed , he magnified to his mind ' s
eye the probable impossibility of gaming access to , much more of succeeding with this enchantress , who , by the combined influence of mind and of form , without any visible exercise of magic or of spell , had , in an instant , so metamorphosed and revolutionized his inclination ^ as to make him now dislike what a little while ago he had of choice followed—and to sigh for that on which he had heretofore felicitated himself on being released and free . But of all the expedients of his prolific soul , this , although the most specious , was really the most futile ; for his iring temperunaccustomed to
disasp , comfiture , laughed to scorn the little impediments by which his ardour might be obstructed ; and instead of being damped by the dullness which opposition should produce , only reverted to the charge with invigorated zeal , and a renovated strength for perseverance . All proved too late , how force to folly turns , AVhen ruthless love within the bosom burns . ( To be continued . )
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
gallantry of Irishmen , and led me to identify you with some scion of that celebrated people—and , now , good bye . " So saying , she darted towards the vestibule of the mansion , having first made a gentle courtesy , at parting , to the stranger . For a moment O'Neil stood petrified and chained to his position , not knowing what to do , until , at length , feeling the delicacy of the situation in which he was placed , and the still greater delicacy of that in which he
had well nigh placed the young lady , he determined to render the only atonement that was now in his power , —and that was to disappear at once . Every feebng was satisfied , so far as regarded her forgiveness : his national sensibilities were also appeased ; the only thing , therefore , that now remained was to follow up , by good management , what accident had so much facilitated , and win the heart of the fair one or perish in the design . ¦ To this end two modes of introduction vied with each other for preference within his mind . One was by subordinate instrumentality ; the other an
ingenuous presentation of himself , in propria persona , to explain particulars in the absence of the usual preliminaries . We need not hesitate as to which course he took . His generous disposition disdaining every thing ignoble , adopted instinctively the straight forward alternative . One very necessary point , however , must first be established—the name of the individual—whether also she was daughter to the proprietor of the habitation into which she had entered ; with various other items of minuteness requisite in such an enterprise .
A reference to the inmates of the neighbouring lodge informed him on those several points ; and then , in the dizziness of doubt and of hope , and with a brain . concocting a thousand chimerical specidations , he found himself returned to his long-forgotten meal , but at an hour more seasonable for dinner than for breakfast .
After a hasty repast he threw himself lollingly upon his couch , and in the calmness of the moment began seriously to consider whether he might not yet succeed in ejecting the little restless god who had usurped such absolute dominion over his whole manhood . He called to his aid the occupations . of his diversified calling—bethought himself of the missions which he had to execute—the thousand correspondences to which he had to attend —and the imperative urgencies of his limited furlough . Then he would wander back to the exemption from cares and incumbrances with which he
had hitherto transported himself from climate to climate , and contrast with it in fancy the weariness of the exchange , if obliged to surrender all this independence and single security for the onerous responsibility of a wedded state . But in vain—the loneliness of celibacy he could not now separate from the nausea of disgust ; while the punctuality of trade appeared to him only as the trammels of servitude . As a dernier resort , and when all the other devices of his invention , to a bosom agitated by the throes of passion had failed , he magnified to his mind ' s
eye the probable impossibility of gaming access to , much more of succeeding with this enchantress , who , by the combined influence of mind and of form , without any visible exercise of magic or of spell , had , in an instant , so metamorphosed and revolutionized his inclination ^ as to make him now dislike what a little while ago he had of choice followed—and to sigh for that on which he had heretofore felicitated himself on being released and free . But of all the expedients of his prolific soul , this , although the most specious , was really the most futile ; for his iring temperunaccustomed to
disasp , comfiture , laughed to scorn the little impediments by which his ardour might be obstructed ; and instead of being damped by the dullness which opposition should produce , only reverted to the charge with invigorated zeal , and a renovated strength for perseverance . All proved too late , how force to folly turns , AVhen ruthless love within the bosom burns . ( To be continued . )